doctor grant hamilton from queensland university of technology is also using drones to monitor koalasalgorithm to automatically detect animals in the outback using computer vision. 0n the right—hand side we have the artificial intelligence algorithm working and on the left—hand side we have the thermal imagery. it's a koala. initially it was falsely detecting kangaroos, for example, as koalas. we were even detecting humans and even hot car bonnets. but that's the whole point that you go back and you retrain the algorithm. so the algorithm gets better and better and better, to the point now where we are better than humans at detecting koalas. so we're now going to work with and institutions to take the datasets and algorithms they have started to develop, layer it over our technology, which enables us to do these surveys at night in the field and get real—time data back. and that's the key. someone who knows a thing or two about the state of australian animals is doctor michael payne. when i first started here 20 years ago we admitted just three koalas in the whole year and last year w

dr grant hamilton from queensland university of technology is also using drones to monitor koalas.tically detect animals in the outback using computer vision. 0n the right—hand side, we have the artificial intelligence algorithm working and on the left—hand side we have the thermal imagery. it's a koala. initially, it was falsely detecting kangaroos, for example, as koalas. we were even detecting humans, and even hot car bonnets. but that's the whole point that you go back and you retrain the algorithm. so the algorithm gets better and better and better to the point now we're better than humans are at detecting koalas. all of the algorithms that have been developed to date is processing back at a university, so there's no in—field processing. so we're now going to work with the universities and the institutions, take their datasets and algorithms that they've started to develop, layer it over our technology, which enables us to do these surveys at night in the field and get real—time data back. and that's the key. someone who knows a thing or two about the state of australian anima

dr grant hamilton from queensland university of technology is also using drones to monitor koalas.n the outback using computer vision. on the right—hand side we have the artificial intelligence algorithm working and on the left—hand side we have the thermal imagery. it's a koala. initially it was falsely detecting kangaroos, for example, as koalas. we were even detecting humans and even hot car bonnets. but that's the whole point, that you go back and you retrain the algorithm. so the algorithm gets better and better and better to the point now we're better than humans are at detecting koalas. all of the algorithms that have been developed to date is processing back at a university, so there's no in field processing. so we're now going to work with the universities and the institutions, take their datasets and algorithms that they've started to develop, layer it over our technology, which enables us to do these surveys at night in the field and get real—time data back. and that's the key. someone who knows a thing or two about the state of australian animals is dr michael pyne. whe

dr grant hamilton from queensland university of technology is also using drones to monitor koalas.car bonnets. but that's the whole point that you go back and you retrain the algorithm. so the algorithm gets better and better and better to the point now we're better than humans are at detecting koalas. all of the algorithms that have been developed to date is processing back at a university, so there's no in field processing. so we're now going to work with the universities and the institutions, take their datasets and algorithms that they've started to develop, layer it over our technology, which enables us to do these surveys at night in the field and get real—time data back. and that's the key. someone who knows a thing or two about the state of australian animals is dr michael pyne. when i first started here 20 years ago we admitted just three koalas in the whole year and last year we admitted almost 600 koalas. he sees real value in an up—to—date digital census. these surveys are done intermittently, maybe every ten years, and in many areas they're not done at all, it's just e