A low-cost, long-term underwater camera trap network coupled with deep residual learning image analysis
| Autor: | Stephanie M. Bilodeau, Austin W. H. Schwartz, Binfeng Xu, V. Paúl Pauca, Miles R. Silman |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
| Předmět: |
Aquatic Organisms
Algae Imaging Techniques Population Dynamics ComputingMethodologies_IMAGEPROCESSINGANDCOMPUTERVISION Equipment Marine and Aquatic Sciences Social Sciences Marine Biology Research and Analysis Methods Machine Learning Species Specificity Image Processing Computer-Assisted Photography Animals Psychology Marine Fish Ecosystem Behavior Multidisciplinary Animal Behavior Coral Reefs Ecology and Environmental Sciences Organisms Fishes Biology and Life Sciences Eukaryota Aquatic Environments Plants Cameras Marine Environments Fish Optical Equipment Vertebrates Earth Sciences Reefs Engineering and Technology Zoology Research Article |
| Zdroj: | PLoS ONE |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
| Popis: | Understanding long-term trends in marine ecosystems requires accurate and repeatable counts of fishes and other aquatic organisms on spatial and temporal scales that are difficult or impossible to achieve with diver-based surveys. Long-term, spatially distributed cameras, like those used in terrestrial camera trapping, have not been successfully applied in marine systems due to limitations of the aquatic environment. Here, we develop methodology for a system of low-cost, long-term camera traps (Dispersed Environment Aquatic Cameras), deployable over large spatial scales in remote marine environments. We use machine learning to classify the large volume of images collected by the cameras. We present a case study of these combined techniques’ use by addressing fish movement and feeding behavior related to halos, a well-documented benthic pattern in shallow tropical reefscapes. Cameras proved able to function continuously underwater at deployed depths (up to 7 m, with later versions deployed to 40 m) with no maintenance or monitoring for over five months and collected a total of over 100,000 images in time-lapse mode (by 15 minutes) during daylight hours. Our ResNet-50-based deep learning model achieved 92.5% overall accuracy in sorting images with and without fishes, and diver surveys revealed that the camera images accurately represented local fish communities. The cameras and machine learning classification represent the first successful method for broad-scale underwater camera trap deployment, and our case study demonstrates the cameras’ potential for addressing questions of marine animal behavior, distributions, and large-scale spatial patterns. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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