Applications for deep learning in ecology

S Christin, É Hervet, N Lecomte - Methods in Ecology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A lot of hype has recently been generated around deep learning, a novel group of artificial
intelligence approaches able to break accuracy records in pattern recognition. Over the …

An evaluation of platforms for processing camera‐trap data using artificial intelligence

J Vélez, W McShea, H Shamon… - Methods in Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Camera traps have quickly transformed the way in which many ecologists study the
distribution of wildlife species, their activity patterns and interactions among members of the …

[HTML][HTML] Automated cattle counting using Mask R-CNN in quadcopter vision system

B Xu, W Wang, G Falzon, P Kwan, L Guo… - … and Electronics in …, 2020 - Elsevier
The accurate and reliable counting of animals in quadcopter acquired imagery is one of the
most promising but challenging tasks in intelligent livestock management in the future. In this …

The iwildcam 2021 competition dataset

S Beery, A Agarwal, E Cole, V Birodkar - arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.03494, 2021 - arxiv.org
Camera traps enable the automatic collection of large quantities of image data. Ecologists
use camera traps to monitor animal populations all over the world. In order to estimate the …

A deep active learning system for species identification and counting in camera trap images

MS Norouzzadeh, D Morris, S Beery… - Methods in ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A typical camera trap survey may produce millions of images that require slow, expensive
manual review. Consequently, critical conservation questions may be answered too slowly …

Using semistructured surveys to improve citizen science data for monitoring biodiversity

S Kelling, A Johnston, A Bonn, D Fink… - …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Biodiversity is being lost at an unprecedented rate, and monitoring is crucial for
understanding the causal drivers and assessing solutions. Most biodiversity monitoring data …

Past, present and future approaches using computer vision for animal re‐identification from camera trap data

S Schneider, GW Taylor, S Linquist… - Methods in Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The ability of a researcher to re‐identify (re‐ID) an individual animal upon re‐encounter is
fundamental for addressing a broad range of questions in the study of ecosystem function …

A biological image classification method based on improved CNN

J Qin, W Pan, X Xiang, Y Tan, G Hou - Ecological Informatics, 2020 - Elsevier
With the increase of biological images, how to classify them effectively is a challenging
problem, the Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) show promise for this problem. The …

Three critical factors affecting automated image species recognition performance for camera traps

S Schneider, S Greenberg, GW Taylor… - Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological camera traps are increasingly used by wildlife biologists to unobtrusively monitor
an ecosystems animal population. However, manual inspection of the images produced is …

Context r-cnn: Long term temporal context for per-camera object detection

S Beery, G Wu, V Rathod, R Votel… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - openaccess.thecvf.com
In static monitoring cameras, useful contextual information can stretch far beyond the few
seconds typical video understanding models might see: subjects may exhibit similar …