The elephant’s new protector is PAWS, a machine-learning and game-theory system that predicts where poachers are likely to strike.
Every year, poachers kill about 27,000 African elephants—an astounding 8 percent of the population. If current trends continue, these magnificent animals could be gone within a decade.
The solution, of course, is to stop poachers before they...
Flying across the horizons of African and Asian forests, drones created through a collaboration between the USC Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society and Microsoft operate with the intent of spotting poaching hunters.
An algorithm developed by USC researchers could help public health programs better locate, and treat, people living with undiagnosed infectious diseases, says a new study.
Thousands of animals including elephants, tigers, rhinos, and gorillas are poached each year. Researchers at the USC Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society have long been applying AI to protect wildlife. Initially, computer scientists were using AI and game theory to anticipate the poachers' haunts, and now they have applied artificial intelligence and deep learning to spot poachers in near real-time.
Poachers are normally active at night. While tools such as infrared cameras are used to monitor living organisms, since poachers and animals they are hunting both give off...
The use of artificial intelligence to protect wildlife is something researchers have been working on for a while. However, computer scientists at the University of Southern California are taking it to the next level with the creation of a deep learning-based A.I. system that is able to spot poachers in near real-time, based on video shot...
Poaching is a major problem for wildlife preserves. While these organisations are struggling to protect animals on the verge of extinction, poachers do whatever they can to sneak in and kill them for immediate gains, usually something as stupid as an animal’s coat, horn or other body parts.
Now, researchers from the University of Southern California Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society are using AI to spot these illegal hunters in near-real time and catch them before they can do harm.
Des chercheurs californiens ont conçu un algorithme capable de distinguer un animal d’un être humain sur une image de caméra thermique infrarouge. L’information est disponible en trois dixièmes de seconde.
LOS ANGELES: Scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) system that can help prevent the spread of infectious diseases such as tuberculosis in India more effectively than public outreach campaigns.
An algorithm developed at the University of Southern California could help public health outreach campaigns better locate and treat people living with undiagnosed infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and gonorrhea.
Researchers from the USC Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society used data—including behavioral, demographic and epidemic trends—to create a novel model of disease spread that both captures the underlying population dynamics and contact patterns between people.
“While there are many methods to identify patient populations for...
Communicable diseases represent a critical challenge for resource-strapped public health infrastructures worldwide. As evidenced by the outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003, influenza A H1N1 (or “swine flu”) in 2009, Ebola and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) in 2014, and the Zika virus in 2016, infectious diseases can spread rapidly within countries and across national borders. In China alone, the ...
USC Professor Milind Tambe has been working on AI-based security solutions since 2007. Now he wants to apply that knowledge to help society, from climate change to gang violence.
By S.C. Stuart
If you're a fan of heist movies like The Italian Job, you're familiar with the scene where the bad guys gather around a map, and the kingpin says something like: "The guards do a security patrol at 05:30 hours. Synchronize your watches. We'll enter here at 05:47 hours. Fingers will disable the alarm before Maxi and her team enter the building via the roof."...
The USC Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society is transforming public health by calibrating real-life, human intervention
Do you have that friend you go out with to indulge on all the scrumptious and unhealthy delicacies L.A. has to offer? Or how about that other friend that eats organic and always makes you feel like an unhealthy chicken nugget?
Chances are you have both – you’re also probably one of them.
Our peers, specifically our human social networks, have a lot of influence when it comes to our lifestyle...
In a groundbreaking project, USC Viterbi School of Engineering and USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work to identify at-risk active military personnel and veterans.
