SealID: Saimaa Ringed Seal Re-Identification Dataset

Autor: Ekaterina Nepovinnykh, Tuomas Eerola, Vincent Biard, Piia Mutka, Marja Niemi, Mervi Kunnasranta, Heikki Kälviäinen
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Sensors, Vol 22, Iss 19, p 7602 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1424-8220
DOI: 10.3390/s22197602
Popis: Wildlife camera traps and crowd-sourced image material provide novel possibilities to monitor endangered animal species. The massive data volumes call for automatic methods to solve various tasks related to population monitoring, such as the re-identification of individual animals. The Saimaa ringed seal (Pusa hispida saimensis) is an endangered subspecies only found in Lake Saimaa, Finland, and is one of the few existing freshwater seal species. Ringed seals have permanent pelage patterns that are unique to each individual and that can be used for the identification of individuals. A large variation in poses, further exacerbated by the deformable nature of seals, together with varying appearance and low contrast between the ring pattern and the rest of the pelage makes the Saimaa ringed seal re-identification task very challenging, providing a good benchmark by which to evaluate state-of-the-art re-identification methods. Therefore, we make our Saimaa ringed seal image (SealID) dataset (N = 57) publicly available for research purposes. In this paper, the dataset is described, the evaluation protocol for re-identification methods is proposed, and the results for two baseline methods—HotSpotter and NORPPA—are provided. The SealID dataset has been made publicly available.
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