CNN Based Flank Predictor for Quadruped Animal Species

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13588v1
• Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 14:24:26 GMT
• Title: CNN Based Flank Predictor for Quadruped Animal Species
• Authors: Vanessa Suessle, Marco Heurich, Colleen T. Downs, Andreas Weinmann, Elke Hergenroether,
• Abstract summary: We train a flank predictor that predicts the visible flank of quadruped mammalian species in images. The developed models were evaluated in different scenarios of different unknown quadruped species in known and unknown environments. The best model, trained on an EfficientNetV2 backbone, achieved an accuracy of 88.70 % for the unknown species lynx in a complex habitat.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: The bilateral asymmetry of flanks of animals with visual body marks that uniquely identify an individual, complicates tasks like population estimations. Automatically generated additional information on the visible side of the animal would improve the accuracy for individual identification. In this study we used transfer learning on popular CNN image classification architectures to train a flank predictor that predicts the visible flank of quadruped mammalian species in images. We automatically derived the data labels from existing datasets originally labeled for animal pose estimation. We trained the models in two phases with different degrees of retraining. The developed models were evaluated in different scenarios of different unknown quadruped species in known and unknown environments. As a real-world scenario, we used a dataset of manually labeled Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) from camera traps in the Bavarian Forest National Park to evaluate the model. The best model, trained on an EfficientNetV2 backbone, achieved an accuracy of 88.70 % for the unknown species lynx in a complex habitat.

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