AI For Social Good | Protecting the biodiversity of the Earth

As a new international organization focusing on the Internet, the World Internet Conference (WIC) is committed to building a global Internet platform for extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits. In order to advocate technology-for-social-good concept, guide global parties concerned to use AI technology to bridge the digital divide and promote human well-being, WIC launched the World Internet Conference AI for Social Good Action Plan and solicited the projects globally. The first round of 33 projects received from 23 enterprises and organizations cover cultural exchanges, biodiversity conservation, medical health, accessible transformation, education and training, livable environment and other fields. These projects reflect the development trend where close combination of voice recognition, image recognition, natural language processing, situational awareness and other AI technologies with specific social good scenarios provides more diversified solutions to constantly improving social welfare capabilities.

FedEx ensures the safe transportation of rare live animals. FedEx has unique monitoring technology, including SenseAware ID Bluetooth sensor, which can comprehensively monitor the temperature, humidity, light and barometric pressure of goods during transportation. Using these technologies, FedEx staff can track the environmental conditions during animal transportation in near real time to ensure that the required temperature and humidity ranges are maintained and excessive light or other infuencing factors are avoided, so that rare animals can be transported efficiently in the safest and most humane way.

Microsoft and Tencent Charity Foundation use AI technology to enhance animal recognition capabilities. Microsoft and Shanshui Conservation Center have developed an infrared camera intelligent management system by using image recognition and machine learning technologies. The system can judge and analyze the content of images captured by the camera, such as, whether a wild animal is captured, before classifying them accordingly, with the image recognition accuracy reaching 90%. The system provides a strong tool for monitoring wildlife and relevant research work with improved efficiency. Through the comprehensive use of transfer learning, automatic data enhancement, hard example mining, computer vision and other technologies, Tencent Charity Foundation has independently developed a set of data platforms including infrared camera data AI recognition and patrol data collaborative management to observe the movements of snow leopards, automatically detect whether animals appear in images or videos and predict the location and category of animals involved. At present, the system can screen out over 98% of aerial photos, with a species recognition rate of over 97%. The number of recognizable species has increased from 23 to 31, the image-level detection rate has improved from 70.8% to 95.5%, and the accuracy has increased from 59.1% to 85.2%. This further enhances the monitoring and protection of snow leopards and helps to improve the results in the protection of endangered species.

Uniview utilizes AI technology to assist in the observation and protection of swifts in Beijing. By utilizing AI machine vision technology and intelligent analysis equipment to overcome engineering and technical difficulties in the internal construction of ancient wooden buildings, Uniview conducts 24-hour uninterrupted observation of swift nests and picks up their sound, and obtains a large amount of valuable videos of swift nesting, egg, hatching, and the growth of newborn swift, thus providing rich research materials on swifts’ annual migration, living habits and other aspects, greatly improving the efficiency of data collection by researchers and supporting biodiversity monitoring research.

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2022年7月12日，世界互联网大会国际组织正式成立，总部设于中国北京。我们将致力于搭建全球互联网共商共建共享平台，推动国际社会顺应信息时代数字化、网络化、智能化趋势，共迎安全挑战，共谋发展福祉，携手构建网络空间命运共同体。

WIC was formally established on July 12, 2022. It is headquartered in Beijing, China. We are ready to work with friends who are committed to promoting the development of the Internet to build a global Internet platform for extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits, promote the international community to follow the trend of digitization, networking and intelligence in the information age, address challenges for common development, and build a community with a shared future in cyberspace.

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