NORPPA: NOvel Ringed seal re-identification by Pelage Pattern Aggregation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2206.02498v2
• Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2022 11:20:26 GMT
• Title: NORPPA: NOvel Ringed seal re-identification by Pelage Pattern Aggregation
• Authors: Ekaterina Nepovinnykh, Ilia Chelak, Tuomas Eerola, Heikki K\"alvi\"ainen
• Abstract summary: We propose a method for Saimaa ringed seal (Pusa hispida saimensis) re-identification. Access to large image volumes through camera trapping and crowdsourcing provides novel possibilities for animal monitoring and conservation.
• Score: 0.1310865248866973
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: We propose a method for Saimaa ringed seal (Pusa hispida saimensis) re-identification. Access to large image volumes through camera trapping and crowdsourcing provides novel possibilities for animal monitoring and conservation and calls for automatic methods for analysis, in particular, when re-identifying individual animals from the images. The proposed method NOvel Ringed seal re-identification by Pelage Pattern Aggregation (NORPPA) utilizes the permanent and unique pelage pattern of Saimaa ringed seals and content-based image retrieval techniques. First, the query image is preprocessed, and each seal instance is segmented. Next, the seal's pelage pattern is extracted using a U-net encoder-decoder based method. Then, CNN-based affine invariant features are embedded and aggregated into Fisher Vectors. Finally, the cosine distance between the Fisher Vectors is used to find the best match from a database of known individuals. We perform extensive experiments of various modifications of the method on a new challenging Saimaa ringed seals re-identification dataset. The proposed method is shown to produce the best re-identification accuracy on our dataset in comparisons with alternative approaches.

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