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It can be a letdown when animals at the zoo are hiding away and hard to see. Hoping to improve the visiting experience, Shoushan Zoo in Kaohsiung has introduced an AI guide, installing cameras in enclosures to track where the animals are. Currently the system is set up in the Formosan black bear and white rhinoceros enclosures. Through AI, visitors can even create a rhino avatar of themselves.

After instructing the screen, it quickly creates a cute rhino avatar of the speaker. The avatar has glasses, a blue shirt, and gray shorts, just like the person standing in front of the screen.

Yang Hsin-yi
Industrial Technology Research Institute
This is me as a rhinoceros! Based on my outfit today, it generated an avatar of me as a Javan rhinoceros.

There are five different species of rhino to choose between. After their rhino avatar is generated, people can change its clothes if they want to.

Member of public
It’s great! The avatar it made is really like me. It can tell the colors and different elements of your clothing.

Member of public
It’s quite special. It can tell what you are wearing and generate an avatar for you. It’s great for kids, they would be really happy to try this.

This is part of an AI guide system that the Shoushan Zoo in Kaohsiung commissioned the Industrial Technology Research Institute to design. It’s set up in the Formosan black bear and white rhinoceros enclosures and uses AI to locate the animals so that visitors can find them.

Yang Hsin-yi
Industrial Technology Research Institute
We can see where the bear is. We can see that the bear is currently hiding in its culvert. It is hiding by camera No. 9, which captures inside the black bear culvert.

Chuang Hsuan-chih
Shoushan Zoo director
Our white rhinoceros enclosure is quite large, so sometimes when visitors are passing through our animal corridors, they can’t immediately see any rhinos. With this guide system, it can automatically detect where the rhinos are and track them.

This system not only tracks animals and generates avatars, but also has interactive games to test visitors’ knowledge of animals, making visiting the zoo more fun and educational.

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