Where wild things roam: Identifying wildlife with SpeciesNet

SpeciesNet is an open-source AI model developed by Google Research that identifies wildlife in camera trap images. It was released open-source a year ago. It can classify nearly 2,500 animal categories and was trained on 65 million labeled images. The post highlights its performance and use by research groups worldwide.

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This Google-developed AI model can classify nearly 2,500 animal categories in camera trap images, thanks to conservation partners who have provided 65M labelled images to train the model.
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Announced: 06 Mar 2026 17:59 UTC
Detected: 03 Aug 2026 21:12 UTC (+150d after)

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