Academic Journal
A versatile, semi-automated image analysis workflow for time-lapse camera trap image classification
| العنوان: | A versatile, semi-automated image analysis workflow for time-lapse camera trap image classification |
|---|---|
| المؤلفون: | Celis, Gerardo, Ungar, Peter, Sokolov, Aleksandr, Soininen, Eeva M, Böhner, Hanna, Liu, Desheng, Gilg, Olivier, Fufachev, Ivan, Pokrovskaya, Olga, Ims, Rolf Anker, Zhou, Wenbo, Morris, Dan, Ehrich, Dorothee |
| بيانات النشر: | Elsevier |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| المجموعة: | University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive |
| الوصف: | Camera traps are a powerful, practical, and non-invasive method used widely to monitor animal communities and evaluate management actions. However, camera trap arrays can generate thousands to millions of images that require significant time and effort to review. Computer vision has emerged as a tool to accelerate this image review process. We propose a multi-step, semi-automated workflow which takes advantage of site-specific and generalizable models to improve detections and consists of (1) automatically identifying and removing lowquality images in parallel with classification into animals, humans, vehicles, and empty, (2) automatically cropping objects from images and classifying them (rock, bait, empty, and species), and (3) manually inspecting a subset of images. We trained and evaluated this approach using 548,627 images from 46 cameras in two regions of the Arctic: “Finnmark” (Finnmark County, Norway) and “Yamal” (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, Russia). The automated steps yield image classification accuracies of 92% and 90% for the Finnmark and Yamal sets, respectively, reducing the number of images that required manual inspection to 9.2% of the Finnmark set and 3.9% of the Yamal set. The amount of time invested in developing models would be offset by the time saved from automation after 960 thousand images have been processed. Researchers can modify this multi-step process to develop their own site-specific models and meet other needs for monitoring and surveying wildlife, balancing the acceptable levels of false negatives and positives. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1574-9541 1878-0512 |
| Relation: | Ecological Informatics; Celis, Ungar, Sokolov, Soininen, Böhner, Liu, Gilg, Fufachev, Pokrovskaya, Ims, Zhou, Morris, Ehrich. A versatile, semi-automated image analysis workflow for time-lapse camera trap image classification. Ecological Informatics. 2024;81; FRIDAID 2269837; https://hdl.handle.net/10037/34526 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2024.102578 |
| الاتاحة: | https://hdl.handle.net/10037/34526 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2024.102578 |
| Rights: | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) ; openAccess ; Copyright 2024 The Author(s) ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.AA56E30F |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| تدمد: | 15749541 18780512 |
|---|---|
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2024.102578 |