Analyses of 3rd party tools

Labelling platforms

	Wildlife Insights	TrapTagger	Trapper
Deployment	SaaS	SaaS	Self-hosted
Scalability	-	-	Python + celery
License	Proprietary	Open Source	Open-source
Handle video	❌	❌	✅
Handle photo	✅	✅	✅
API	✅	✅	✅
Manual upload	✅	✅	✅
Data input	Via Google Cloud Platform (GCP)	Via Via Amazon S3	Via FTP
Deployment info	-	-	There is no Docker image ready (but there is a Dockerfile), some adjustments in the original repository are necessary [1]

Assumptions	- Data output is the same as data input	- Data output is the same as data input	- Data output is the same as data input

[1] Need AZURE to run with cloud-based storage

	Roboflow	EdgeImpulse	TensorFlow Lite
Deployment	SaaS	SaaS	Framework
Dataset management	✅: different data itegration sources here including S3	✅ : built-in & 3rd party [1]	❌ TFDataset: additional lib for dataset storage formating, for management consider DVC, for integration with S3 and other cloud storage formats
Dataset labeling	✅: on platform labeling here as well as integrations here	⚖️ : Built-in for object detection in images only	❌ : Needs integration with 3rd parties
Model training	✅: built-in here	✅: built-in	❌: For training models use TensorFlow
Model management	✅: built-in versioning and re-training	✅ : built-in versioning and re-training	❌ : Consider DVC Model Registry or MLFlow
Model deployment	✅: different deployment targets (here and here)	✅ (+ optimization for edge: export to different architectures)	✅ : Convert the model into an efficient format for edge compute; supported targets can be found here

[1] Edge Impulse : Dataset management

[2] Edge Impulse : Model deployment

Integration can be done using API
- API reference: https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/api+reference#auth
- Protocol: HTTPS
- Authentication: 3rd party authentication
- Images can be uploaded via HTTPS

Integration can be done using API
- API reference: https://www.gbif.org/developer/summary
- Protocol: HTTPS
- Authentication: basic auth (user:password)
- Images can be uploaded via HTTPS