2. Filippo Del Frari

3. Carlo Mariangeli

4. Ermanno Moser

5. Nicola Perantoni

6. Gloria Zen

8. issue: project (lead by World Bank) of building a channel to bring water from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea on bird migration

9. environmentalists accuses this would affect migration phenomenon

10. proof supporting this claim is needed!

12. Human activities and climate/landscape changes are affecting this natural phenomenon

15. Collection of image data with time + GPS location of Flocks of Birds

16. Information about bird species + number of individuals can be automatically extracted from image.

21. Position information signs in strategic birdwatching hotspots

22. Marketing the initiative within local environmental associations (wwf, national parks, etc.)

24. Users are allowed to look through images and data on this map ( e.g. )

25. Create a score system where user gets new points for each new image loaded or labeled

32. Bird shape

34. ( opencv.willowgarage.com image processing library ) Thres- holding Blob detection original image binary image results (birds localization)

37. low contrast

45. We want to exploit crowdsourcing. Target users are birdwatchers.

46. Through this system we want to create an open map migratory birds, containing information about the presence of which bird species + in which period of the year .

47. We show our demo implemented on a platform Android....

48. Solutions available at:

49. http://www.rhok.org/node/20752