Distinguish Leopards vs Jaguars Using ModelArts AutoML

Service Configuration

Before using ModelArts, add an access key to authorize jobs to access Huawei Cloud OBS storage.

1. Generate an access key in the "User Information > Manage My Credentials" page; the key file will be downloaded.

2. Set the global ModelArts configuration by adding the access key on the ModelArts service page to enable OBS access.

Create AutoML Project

After configuring the service, you can build your own application.

1. Create an OBS bucket named ai-mission1-cat and a folder /automl/cat inside it.

2. Open the ModelArts console, click the left‑navigation "AutoML", and enter the AutoML interface.

3. Click the "Image Classification" button to create a project, name it (e.g., exeML-cat ), and set the training data path to /ai-mission1-cat/automl/cat/ . Then create the project.

Image Annotation

1. Upload images: after the project is created, you can batch‑upload multiple images for training.

2. Annotate images: go to the "Unlabeled" page, select a group of images of the same class, assign a label (e.g., "leopard"); if the label does not exist, type it manually.

3. Verify labels: after labeling all images, go to the "Labeled" page to see all tags and the number of images per tag.

Model Training

In the "Data Annotation" page, set the training duration to 0.1 (shorter training may reduce accuracy) and click "Start Training".

Model Deployment

Wait for training to finish (typically under 6 minutes). The model accuracy is shown; with only lion, tiger, cat, and leopard classes the accuracy reaches 100%, but adding jaguar and leopard reduces it to about 91% due to similarity.

Click the "Deploy" button to publish the model as an online service.

Service Testing

After deployment succeeds, click "Upload Local Image" and select a jaguar picture.

Click the "Predict" button. The result shows a 62.8% probability of being a jaguar. Re‑run with a different pose to see consistent predictions, demonstrating that the AI can successfully distinguish jaguars from leopards.