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Counting Sea Lions and Elephants from Aerial Photography using Deep Learning with Density Maps

Domain:

environment and energygeospatial

Record type:

paper
Creator:
Chirag PadubidriAndreas KamilarisSavvas KaratsiolisJacob Kamminga
Publisher:
Zenodo
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The ability to automatically count animals is important to design appropriate environmental policies and to monitor their populations in relation to biodiversity and maintain balance among species. Out of all living mammals on Earth, 60% are livestock, 36% humans, and only 4% are animals that live in the wild. In a relatively short period, development of human civilization caused a loss of 83% of
wildlife and 50% of plants. The rate of species extinction is accelerating. Traditional wildlife surveys provide rough population estimates. However, emerging technologies, such as aerial photography, allow to perform large-scale surveys in a short period of time with high accuracy. In this paper, we propose the use of computer vision, through deep learning (DL) architecture, together
with aerial photography and density maps, to count the population of Steller sea lions and African elephants with high precision.

This work has been partly supported by the project that has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 739578 (RISE – Call: H2020-WIDESPREAD-01-2016-2017-TeamingPhase2) and the Republic of Cyprus through the Deputy Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy.

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Tasks

computer visionimage classification

Tags

Animal CountingSteller Sea-lionsElephantDeep LearningAerial Photography

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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 Internationalhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode

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