Automated facial recognition for wildlife that lack unique markings: A deep learning approach for brown bears

• Published in: Ecology and Evolution
• Main Authors: Clapham, Melanie, Miller, Ed, Nguyen, Mary, Darimont, Chris T.
• Other Authors: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2020
• Subjects: Ursus arctos; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6840; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ece3.6840; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/ece3.6840

Abstract Emerging technologies support a new era of applied wildlife research, generating data on scales from individuals to populations. Computer vision methods can process large datasets generated through image‐based techniques by automating the detection and identification of species and individu...