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Towards automatic wild animal monitoring: Identification of animal species in camera-trap images using very deep convolutional neural networks

Gomez Villa, Alexander, Salazar, Augusto, Vargas, Francisco·2017·Ecological Informatics

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Non intrusive monitoring of animals in the wild is possible using camera trapping framework, which uses cameras triggered by sensors to take a burst of images of animals in their habitat. However camera trapping framework produces a high volume of data (in the order on thousands or millions of images), which must be analyzed by a human expert. In this work, a method for animal species identification in the wild using very deep convolutional neural networks is presented. Multiple versions of the Snapshot Serengeti dataset were used in order to probe the ability of the method to cope with different challenges that camera-trap images demand. The method reached 88.9% of accuracy in Top-1 and 98.1% in Top-5 in the evaluation set using a residual network topology. Also, the results show that the proposed method outperforms previous approximations and proves that recognition in camera-trap images can be automated.

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Authors
Gomez Villa, A., Salazar, A., & Vargas, F.
Venue
Ecological Informatics
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2017-09
Volume
41
Pages
24-32
ISSN
1574-9541 (ISSN-L)
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W2964298670
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332
References
7
FWCI
11.23
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Gomez Villa, A., Salazar, A., & Vargas, F. (2017). Towards automatic wild animal monitoring: Identification of animal species in camera-trap images using very deep convolutional neural networks. Ecological Informatics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2017.07.004

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