Animal Recognition

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Thanks for your reply. I will try to explain a little bit better. I’m looking at creating a device that can be used to identify certain animals from live video. I’m not to worried about the device itself, but the actual software that does the identification is where I need your advice. Animals will come into view of this device and then the software should identify which type of animal it is. There will only be about 5 animals that needs to be identified. For instance, a lion comes into view and base on that a certain action needs to be perform, or when a Leopard comes into view a different action needs to be performed.

Hope this helps. Regards

@martindut Because certain animals share similarities, for example a cheetah and a leopard, you will need to specify the 5 animals you want to identify. I know you would want to extend this number at a later stage. This would help in finding a solution to your problem. The more different the animals are, the better it would be to classify between each other.

And as usually a sample video would help. But it seems that you'll meet many difficulties with such system. It is really hard to train/design a good classifier. LatentSVN is a nice approach (first link in the answer), but it doesn't use (1) colors and (2) video sequence. So, you can start with it (OpenCV has implementation of detector), but later think about extending this approach for several frames and using some additional information. For instance, if the camera is fixed, you must do fg/bg segmentation, if will allow you to remove the noise from the background.

Sorry for only replying now. Thanks for your replies. I think I confused myself with all the info I gathered and I must tell you that I have no experience in this field. I did look at the first link and tried to get VOC working on my Win 7 64bit with Matlab 2011a, but most of the files seems to be in Unix format so I cannot get it working to play around with it. Forgot to say that the video will be from a static camera and will have to identify the animal as it walks past.

As we all said, we can give a more complete answer if you provide more details and some example images. Please tell us what are the animals your are trying to recognize (they have similar shapes/appearances? how the animal will appear to the camera? etc.).

Hello we are looking for object detection software (animal detection) as per your conversation . we too looking for these kind of software.our main aim is to detect the intruders when it appears in the detection range of the product(pir camera with motion sensor) .when the product takae the pictures it will send to server through gprs and FTP .so ,when we use these animal detection software ,it suppose send an alert when the animal appear.for instance our target to detect is elephant,tiger ,lion etc..,when these kind of animals is appears near to product and detected it ,that moment the software as to alert us. we want to use this software for the anti-collision of the animal and anti-theif .we required this kind of software.once you will found let me know looking forward for your reply ,