Automation animal tracker using complex value neural network

Abstract

Animal tracker is an important phase in animal behavior analysis. It leads to understanding how, when, and why the animal use the environmental resources, how, where, and when they interact with each other, with other species, and with their environment. Understanding the animal behavior is providing the link to population distribution which is essential for predicting the human-caused environmental change and guidance for conservation strategies. Tracking and detecting the animal is time and cost consuming. Machine Learning can relieve this burden by detecting animal automatically. Complex-Valued Neural Network is a method of Machine Learning that is challenging and interesting to be explored. This study applied of Complex-Valued Neural Network (CVNN) for animal tracking, especially in detecting the animal species. The experiment results present that CVNN is robust to recognition the animal automatically.