SealID: Saimaa Ringed Seal Re-Identification Dataset

• Published in: Sensors
• Main Authors: Ekaterina Nepovinnykh, Tuomas Eerola, Vincent Biard, Piia Mutka, Marja Niemi, Mervi Kunnasranta, Heikki Kälviäinen
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: computer vision; image processing; animal biometrics; re-identification; ringed seals; re-identification dataset; Norppa; Pusa hispida; ringed seal
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/s22197602

Wildlife camera traps and crowd-sourced image material provide novel possibilities to monitor endangered animal species. The massive data volumes call for automatic methods to solve various tasks related to population monitoring, such as the re-identification of individual animals. The Saimaa ringed...