Distance Estimation and Animal Tracking for Wildlife Camera Trapping

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2202.04613v1
• Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2022 18:12:18 GMT
• Title: Distance Estimation and Animal Tracking for Wildlife Camera Trapping
• Authors: Peter Johanns, Timm Haucke, Volker Steinhage
• Abstract summary: We propose a fully automatic approach to estimate camera-to-animal distances. We leverage state-of-the-art relative MDE and a novel alignment procedure to estimate metric distances. We achieve a mean absolute distance estimation error of only 0.9864 meters at a precision of 90.3% and recall of 63.8%.
• Score: 0.0
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: The ongoing biodiversity crysis calls for accurate estimation of animal density and abundance to identify, for example, sources of biodiversity decline and effectiveness of conservation interventions. Camera traps together with abundance estimation methods are often employed for this purpose. The necessary distances between camera and observed animal are traditionally derived in a laborious, fully manual or semi-automatic process. Both approaches require reference image material, which is both difficult to acquire and not available for existing datasets. In this study, we propose a fully automatic approach to estimate camera-to-animal distances, based on monocular depth estimation (MDE), and without the need of reference image material. We leverage state-of-the-art relative MDE and a novel alignment procedure to estimate metric distances. We evaluate the approach on a zoo scenario dataset unseen during training. We achieve a mean absolute distance estimation error of only 0.9864 meters at a precision of 90.3% and recall of 63.8%, while completely eliminating the previously required manual effort for biodiversity researchers. The code will be made available.

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