Bird in the Hand: An Electronic Field Guide App for Bird Watchers
Mar 15, 2012·
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Martin Roa Villescas
Mauricio orozco alzate
Abstract
This article documents the design and implementation of an electronic field guide for bird watchers-named RB Birds-developed to run on mobile smart phones and aimed at looking up, checking, and identifying 362 bird species that are encountered at the Rio Blanco Ecological Reserve, “which is located on the outskirts of Manizales, Colombia. This application package has a database that contains information corresponding to each species including images, songs, physical descriptions, feeding habits, migratory movements in time and space, and habitat requirements, among others. RB Birds has a specialized search engine that allows the identification of specimens based on observed physical attributes.
Publication
In IEEE Potentials
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Teacher & Researcher
Martin Roa Villescas holds a BSc in Electronic Engineering from the National
University of Colombia and an MSc in Embedded Systems from Eindhoven
University of Technology (TU/e). He worked at Philips Research as an
embedded software designer from 2013 to 2018. He later returned to TU/e for
his doctoral research in model-based machine learning, carried out within
the PhD-Teaching Assistant trajectory combining research and teaching. Since
2023, he has been working at Fontys University of Applied Sciences in the
Netherlands, where he teaches in the Information and Communication
Technology program and conducts research in robotics and smart industry.
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