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Selecting Informative Samples for Animal Recognition in the Wildlife

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Intelligent Decision Technologies 2019

Part of the book series: Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies ((SIST,volume 143))

Abstract

Observations in the wildlife using cameras traps are very useful in ecological, conservation, and behavioral research of animals and birds. However, a large number of recorded images do not contain the objects of interest, and manual removal of such images is a highly difficult and durable process. We suggest an automatic selection of relevant images in order to prepare the informative samples for following animal recognition and a set of representative images for manual detailed analysis if it is necessary. In this research, we propose two methods based on the background model constructed “on the fly” and Gaussian mixture model. The distorted images by visual artifacts are removed preliminary. The experiments were conducted on 30,000 images captured by camera traps in Ergaki national park, Krasnoyarsky Kray, Russia, 2012–2018. The best accuracy result for selecting informative samples achieved 96% regarding the human estimates.

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The reported study was funded by Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Government of Krasnoyarsk Territory, Krasnoyarsk Regional Fund of Science, to the research project No 18-47-240001.

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    Margarita Favorskaya & Vladimir Buryachenko

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Favorskaya, M., Buryachenko, V. (2019). Selecting Informative Samples for Animal Recognition in the Wildlife. In: Czarnowski, I., Howlett, R., Jain, L. (eds) Intelligent Decision Technologies 2019. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 143. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8303-8_6

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