About Sheila Kharismadewi
I started my conservation career in remote area of Sumatran forest, monitoring newly described a great apes species - Tapanuli orangutans as well as its habitat. The journey takes me to be now a Biodiversity Unit Coordinator for Ex-Situ Division in an organization called Yayasan Ekosistem Lestari - Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (YEL-SOCP), focusing on orangutan rehabilitation and reintroduction program.
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Hello!
My name is Sheila Kharismadewi, and I work as the Biodiversity Coordinator for the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme in North Sumatra, Indonesia.
We are interested in developing a non-invasive method to identify individual Sumatran orangutans using facial recognition, with the eventual goal of making the technology available through a mobile application for use in our rehabilitation centres, as well as reintroduction centre after the orangutans are being released.
We have photographs of known individuals collected during field observations, rehabilitation, and release monitoring. We would like to explore whether these photographs could be used to evaluate and potentially adapt existing model for Sumatran orangutans, if any.
I would appreciate learning more about model's training dataset, validation methods, and potential for adaptation to orangutan species and conservation setting.
Is there anyone open to discussing a potential collaboration or advising us on the feasibility of this approach?
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