SOCRATES: Introducing Depth in Visual Wildlife Monitoring Using Stereo Vision

• Published in: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 22; no. 23; p. 9082
• Main Authors: Haucke, Timm, Kühl, Hjalmar S., Steinhage, Volker
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 23.11.2022; MDPI
• Subjects: animal abundance; animal density; Animal populations; Animals; Animals, Wild; Automation; Biodiversity; Biological monitoring; Calibration; camera trapping; Cameras; Datasets; Deep learning; Ecosystem; instance segmentation; Sensors; Software; stereo vision; Technology application; Germany; animal abundance; instance segmentation; camera trapping; animal density; stereo vision

The development and application of modern technology are an essential basis for the efficient monitoring of species in natural habitats to assess the change of ecosystems, species communities and populations, and in order to understand important drivers of change. For estimating wildlife abundance,...