Wildlife Re-Identification
MegaDescriptorIs this the same individual animal returning? Individual re-ID, not species classification
Upload a new sighting photo and a small gallery of past sighting photos of the same species. This crops the animal from each photo (reusing the site's existing 601-class object detector) and compares them with MegaDescriptor, a foundation model built specifically for individual animal re-identification — the same class of embedding-similarity search a backyard-camera-trap tool would use to notice a repeat visitor.
Not a validated identification system — a "does this look like the same individual" signal, not proof. Nothing is stored; only the photos in this one request are compared.
1. New sighting photo
What this doesn't do: this is not a validated wildlife-identification system — the same/uncertain/different bands are informed by one real local test, not a calibrated threshold from a proper multi-individual validation set. It skips the pose-normalization and multi-crop-averaging techniques real re-ID research pipelines use. MegaDescriptor is licensed CC-BY-NC-4.0 (non-commercial).