An AI practitioner has a database of animal photos.

Object detection is the correct strategy for automatically identifying and categorizing animals in photos.

Object Detection:

A computer vision technique that identifies and locates objects within an image and assigns them to predefined categories.

Ideal for tasks such as identifying animals in photos, where the goal is to detect specific objects (animals) and categorize them accordingly.

Why Option A is Correct:

Automatic Identification: Object detection models can automatically identify different types of animals in the images without manual intervention.

Categorization Capability: Assigns labels to detected objects, fulfilling the requirement for categorizing animals.

Why Other Options are Incorrect:

B. Anomaly detection: Identifies outliers or unusual patterns, not specific objects in images.

C. Named entity recognition: Used in NLP to identify entities in text, not for image processing.

D. Inpainting: Used for filling in missing parts of images, not for detecting or categorizing objects.