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.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
• Subjects: Original Research; British Columbia; Canada; Ursus arctos; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7713984/; https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6840

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 individuals. With...