Distance Estimation and Animal Tracking for Wildlife Camera Trapping. (arXiv:2202.04613v1 [cs.CV])

The ongoing biodiversity crysis calls for accurate estimation of animal
density and abundance to identify, for example, sources of biodiversity decline
and effectiveness of conservation interventions. Camera traps together with
abundance estimation methods are often employed for this purpose. The necessary
distances between camera and observed animal are traditionally derived in a
laborious, fully manual or semi-automatic process. Both approaches require
reference image material, which is both difficult to acquire and not available
for existing datasets. In this study, we …

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