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Automatically identifying, counting, and describing wild animals in camera-trap images with deep learning
[article]
2017
arXiv
pre-print
Those efficiency gains immediately highlight the importance of using deep neural networks to automate data extraction from camera-trap images. ...
We train deep convolutional neural networks to identify, count, and describe the behaviors of 48 species in the 3.2-million-image Snapshot Serengeti dataset. ...
Gomez A, Diez G, Salazar A, Diaz A (2016) Animal identification in low quality camera-trap images using very deep convolutional neural networks and confidence thresholds in International Symposium on Visual ...
arXiv:1703.05830v5
fatcat:5ip5ine4czhshieovcue2ellli
Species‐level image classification with convolutional neural network enables insect identification from habitus images
2019
Ecology and Evolution
Here, we test whether a convolutional neural network (CNN) can classify habitus images of ground beetles to species level, and estimate how correct classification relates to body size, number of species ...
Camera traps can capture habitus images of ground-dwelling insects. However, currently sampling involves manually detecting and identifying specimens. ...
| Evaluating predictions and setting thresholds to separate low-and high-confidence predictions The output layer of the convolutional neural network consisted of a The neural network included only species-level ...
doi:10.1002/ece3.5921
pmid:32015839
pmcid:PMC6988528
fatcat:e3otvlsdx5gv3k2mruc7q223cm
A deep active learning system for species identification and counting in camera trap images
[article]
2019
arXiv
pre-print
However, extracting useful information from camera trap images is a cumbersome process: a typical camera trap survey may produce millions of images that require slow, expensive manual review. ...
camera trap images. ...
Deep convolutional neural networks are a class of deep neural networks designed specifically to process images [8, 15] . ...
arXiv:1910.09716v1
fatcat:xqrxsaf5obbqxpksictfildjwa
Automated location invariant animal detection in camera trap images using publicly available data sources
2021
Ecology and Evolution
location invariant camera trap object detectors by (a) evaluating publicly available image datasets characterized by high intradataset variability in training deep learning models for camera trap object ...
This prevents optimal use of ecological data resulting in significant expenditure of time and resources to annotate and retrain deep learning models.We present a method ecologists can use to develop optimized ...
K E Y W O R D S animal identification, artificial intelligence, camera trap images, camera trapping, deep convolutional neural networks, deep learning, infusion, location invariance, wildlife ecology, ...
doi:10.1002/ece3.7344
pmid:33976825
pmcid:PMC8093655
fatcat:3lj5xjnmnfajvdtgri3lh227qa
Florida Wildlife Camera Trap Dataset
[article]
2021
arXiv
pre-print
We introduce a challenging wildlife camera trap classification dataset collected from two different locations in Southwestern Florida, consisting of 104,495 images featuring visually similar species, varying ...
Minimal human interference required to operate camera traps allows capturing unbiased species activities. ...
Animal identification in low quality camera-trap images using very deep convolutional neural networks and confidence thresholds. In International symposium on visual computing, pages 747-756. ...
arXiv:2106.12628v1
fatcat:6obg5al52nbd7jhdlxj22az634
Three critical factors affecting automated image species recognition performance for camera traps
2020
Ecology and Evolution
The success of deep learning systems using camera trap images has been previously explored in preliminary stages. These studies, however, are lacking in their practicality. ...
Ecological camera traps are increasingly used by wildlife biologists to unobtrusively monitor an ecosystems animal population. ...
Following this work, they also used deep learning to improve low-resolution animal species recognition by training deep CNNs on poor-quality images. ...
doi:10.1002/ece3.6147
pmid:32274005
pmcid:PMC7141055
fatcat:m3mabgop2zf2dp7dsogprm3rui
Deep learning‐based methods for individual recognition in small birds
2020
Methods in Ecology and Evolution
| INTRODUC TI ON In recent years, deep learning techniques, such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have caught the attention of ecologists. ...
K E Y W O R D S artificial intelligence, automated, convolutional neural networks, data collection, deep learning, individual identification images with the identity (or an attribute) of each individual ...
doi:10.1111/2041-210x.13436
fatcat:arxtggz7yfd2rctgta22y6bv4m
Filtering Empty Camera Trap Images in Embedded Systems
[article]
2021
arXiv
pre-print
Embedding deep learning models to identify animals and filter these images directly in those devices brings advantages such as savings in the storage and transmission of data, usually resource-constrained ...
Monitoring wildlife through camera traps produces a massive amount of images, whose a significant portion does not contain animals, being later discarded. ...
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. ...
arXiv:2104.08859v1
fatcat:yrhbejwwqrh4texurmq52zjxtu
Innovations in Camera Trapping Technology and Approaches: The Integration of Citizen Science and Artificial Intelligence
2020
Animals
As camera trap technology has evolved, cameras have become more user-friendly and the enormous quantities of data they now collect has led researchers to seek assistance in classifying footage. ...
Camera trapping has become an increasingly reliable and mainstream tool for surveying a diversity of wildlife species. ...
Acknowledgments: We would like to thank Samantha Mason and the anonymous reviewers for their constructive and helpful feedback on earlier drafts of this manuscript. ...
doi:10.3390/ani10010132
pmid:31947586
pmcid:PMC7023201
fatcat:h3uhrx5l4nbzrb4rippeqtrkuu
Deep learning-based methods for individual recognition in small birds
[article]
2019
biorxiv/medrxiv
pre-print
neural networks (CNNs).Here, we describe procedures that improve data collection and allow individual identification in captive and wild birds and we apply it to three small bird species, the sociable ...
Third, we illustrate the general applicability of CNN for individual identification in animal studies by showing that the trained CNN can predict the identity of birds from images collected in contexts ...
| INTRODUC TI ON In recent years, deep learning techniques, such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have caught the attention of ecologists. ...
doi:10.1101/862557
fatcat:bopisi6hzfhnde7z2pfuctq6fi
The Role of Citizen Science and Deep Learning in Camera Trapping
2021
Sustainability
and citizens' evaluations, the way of training a neural network and adding a taxon complexity index. ...
Our approach aims to show a new perspective and to update the recent progress in engaging the enthusiasm of citizen scientists and in including machine learning processes into image classification in camera ...
Acknowledgments: We are grateful to Dušan Romportl, whose long-term experience in the field has helped to form the idea of creating the camera trap database and whose input has improved the features of ...
doi:10.3390/su131810287
fatcat:xa7nvzd47vbhjc4wgtysv4azui
ClassifyMe: A Field-Scouting Software for the Identification of Wildlife in Camera Trap Images
2019
Animals
We present ClassifyMe a software tool for the automated identification of animal species from camera trap images. ClassifyMe is intended to be used by ecologists both in the field and in the office. ...
ClassifyMe will identify animals and other objects (e.g., vehicles) in images, provide a report file with the most likely species detections, and automatically sort the images into sub-folders corresponding ...
Acknowledgments: We thank the following funding bodies for supporting our endeavours to provide a range of practitioner-based tools using current technology: Australian Wool Innovation, Meat and Livestock ...
doi:10.3390/ani10010058
pmid:31892236
pmcid:PMC7022311
fatcat:dy65llirrvdmzagb3wboogflde
Automated cattle counting using Mask R-CNN in quadcopter vision system
2020
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
The optimal IoU threshold (0.5) and the full-appearance detection for the algorithm in this study are verified through performance evaluation. ...
Our research shows promising steps towards the incorporation of artificial intelligence using quadcopters for enhanced management of animals. ...
In contrast, more recent objection approaches combine artificial neural network and deep learning technology via the convolutional neural network, which has combined local region perception, feature extraction ...
doi:10.1016/j.compag.2020.105300
fatcat:lp5rh2k2aza73eiu3ddzikgcki
ClassifyMe: a field-scouting software for the identification of wildlife in camera trap images
[article]
2019
bioRxiv
pre-print
We present ClassifyMe a software tool for the automated identification of animal species from camera trap images. ClassifyMe is intended to be used by ecologists both in the field and in the office. ...
ClassifyMe will identify animals and other objects (e.g. vehicles) in images, provide a report file with the most likely species detections and automatically sort the images into sub-folders corresponding ...
The dataset is described in and features camera trap images of 40 mammal species on the African savanna. ...
doi:10.1101/646737
fatcat:cq56rgkmqnccpompxsvhmmpubu
High Throughput Data Acquisition and Deep Learning for Insect Ecoinformatics
2021
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
The proposed approach combines "high tech" deep learning with "low tech" sticky traps that sample flying insects in diverse locations. ...
We developed software, based on deep learning, to identify the three species in images of sticky traps from Eucalyptus forests. ...
The current leading approach to such tasks is supervised learning using deep neural networks (DNNs), and particularly convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which are able to extract abstract high level ...
doi:10.3389/fevo.2021.600931
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