Research
What are camera traps?
Camera traps are used to collect photos of animals in the wild, taking a burst of photos when triggered by motion. Projects using camera traps can generate thousands of images so by using members of the public (you!) we can quickly gather lots of information about what is in the photos, whilst letting you be the first to see some candid wildlife shots.
This project is using two sets of photos from existing camera trap projects- one set from MammalWeb based in County Durham, UK; and the other from fellow Zooniverse project, Snapshot Serengeti, based in Tanzania. We are interested in how well people can identify different animals in different types of photo.
What are you trying to find out?
We want to know whether being shown a photo in a sequence will make it easier for you to identify what is in it. After we reach a level of certainty for what is in the image, it is 'retired'. This means that using everybody's classifications for an image we think we know which species it contains and no longer need to show the image to more people. In this project we would like to find out how much quicker images may be 'retired' if shown to you in the context of the burst of photos they were originally taken in. For example, in the sequence of photos below if you were only to see the third photo you may not be able to identify the species, but by looking at the other two images you can tell that the tail belongs to a fox!
