Timelapse Image Analyzer for Camera Traps

Timelapse Image Analyzer for Camera Traps

Visually analyzing and tagging data from thousands of images and videos is a painful process.

The Timelapse Image Analyser for Camera Traps project develops freely-available software that helps ecologists efficiently do the above. Timelapse reads and displays images and videos from any type of remote camera. It automatically extracts information from all images such as dates, times and metadata of your choosing. It allows the ecologist to configure a custom interface for entering data specific to the ecology project. It has various visual search tools for examining image details including a magnifying glass, pan and zoom and image enhancement. It facilitates rapid data entry, especially for repetitious data common to many images. It saves all data in a database, where data can also be exported to Excel. It includes a search engine so you can investigate subsets of your images quickly.

Timelapse also integrates image recognition capabilities via AddaxAI or recognition files generated by Megadetector. You see bounding boxes atop recognized entities. You can also select subsets of images and videos identifying empty images pr containing particular entities. For videos, a button click navigates to the frame with the highest confidence recognition. Customized folder-level metadata is also available, where you can add data that (for example) details your project, your sites, your individual deployments, etc. And much more!