Can Google machine learning TensorFlow help sea mammals such as sea cows, whales, dolphins that are under the threat of extinction? Scientists believe it can.
 

Because of coastal developments sea cows are losing their lives. It’s happening around the world for other marine animals too. If we didn’t stop it leads to the extinction of sea cows.
 

We can reduce the damage by tracking their populations and places they live etc., but it is very tough. Tracking accurate data on population is very critical. So scientists are used small planes to calculate the populations of sea cows. This method of using planes was expensive and hazardous.
 

Dr. Amanda Hodgson of Murdoch University helped to take an aerial photography of the ocean using Drones. Now we can easily collect photos of ocean without causing any problems. Here the problem is started! How can they find sea cows in nearly 45000 photos?

See the image below. Did you find sea cows in that image? I think it’s very tough. Look at in the middle of the lower-left quarter. That little gray smaller-than-fingernail sized silver. You can’t find it without the circle.
 

Check the image clearly with the sea cows circled.
 

Do you believe that we can manually identify sea cows for hundreds or thousands of photos? It’s impossible. Nott impossible but slows down your research.
 

So Dr. Amanda Hodgson and team decided to apply machine learning. She teamed up with Dr. Fredrick Maire, a computer scientist at Queensland university of Technology. They created a detector using Google’s TensorFlow platform that can automatically find sea cows in aerial photos of oceans taken from drones.
 

Google’s second generation machine learning system TensorFlow was launched last year. It is developed by the researchers at Google Brain team within Google’s machine intelligence research organisation. This is a free open source machine learning system. This technology is like the image recognition tool that lets you search Google photos for shots of particular dog specious etc.,
 

The detector helped to find 80% of the sea cows that they had found manually in photos. Now they are confident and expect to improve the performance of the detector. They are planning to use this technology to detect other sea mammals such as Humpback whales and certain types of Dolphins.
 

It’s very urgent to protect the lives of animals in danger. Google Machine Learning TensorFlow is helping in saving the lives of incredible animals on earth.