Multi-Species Object Detection in Drone Imagery for Population Monitoring of Endangered Animals

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.00127v1
• Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 03:03:55 GMT
• Title: Multi-Species Object Detection in Drone Imagery for Population Monitoring of Endangered Animals
• Authors: Sowmya Sankaran,
• Abstract summary: This research focused on fine-tuning object detection models for drone images to create accurate counts of animal species. We trained 30 different models, with the largest having 43.7 million parameters and 365 layers. We deployed the models on the Jetson Orin Nano for demonstration of low-power real-time species detection for easy inference on drones.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Animal populations worldwide are rapidly declining, and a technology that can accurately count endangered species could be vital for monitoring population changes over several years. This research focused on fine-tuning object detection models for drone images to create accurate counts of animal species. Hundreds of images taken using a drone and large, openly available drone-image datasets were used to fine-tune machine learning models with the baseline YOLOv8 architecture. We trained 30 different models, with the largest having 43.7 million parameters and 365 layers, and used hyperparameter tuning and data augmentation techniques to improve accuracy. While the state-of-the-art YOLOv8 baseline had only 0.7% accuracy on a dataset of safari animals, our models had 95% accuracy on the same dataset. Finally, we deployed the models on the Jetson Orin Nano for demonstration of low-power real-time species detection for easy inference on drones.

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