Georges Ruiz
Student in Master Biologie in Bochum and Essen University, creator of this website, actual webmaster
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Building the site, design html5 and css3, coding in javascript and php and all that uninteresting stuff...
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Image Credits
Ant specimen photographs throughout this website come from several sources. Each image links to its original source.
AntWeb.org
AntWeb.org - the world's largest online database of ant images and specimen records.
Images shared under CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photographers include: April Nobile, Will Ericson, Erin Prado, Shannon Hartman, and many other contributors at the California Academy of Sciences.
Japanese Ant Database (JAD)
Japanese Ant Database (Ant Image Database Project, Japan).
High-quality specimen photographs and drawings of Japanese ant species.
ML Training Data
Our species identification model is trained using specimen images from the following sources:
AntWeb.org - 44 species, 15 subfamilies, 1428 specimen images (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Japanese Ant Database - Used with permission from JADG
AntWiki.org - Reference data (images have individual licenses per owner)
Images are used solely for training our neural network model. They are not displayed or redistributed.
Our project is open source: GitHub
Data Sources
Species counts and distribution data from:
- AntWiki - The Ant Encyclopedia
- AntMaps.org - Economo Lab, OIST
- AntKeeping.info
- Bolton's Catalogue of Ants of the World