A novel system for non-invasive method of animal tracking and classification in designated area using intelligent camera system

Abstract

This paper proposed a novel system for noninvasive method of animal tracking and classification in a designated area. The system is based on intelligent devices with cameras, which are situated in a designated area, and a main computing unit (MCU) acting as a system master. Intelligent devices track animals and then send data to MCU for evaluation. The main purpose of this system is detection and classification of moving animals in a designated area and then creation of migration corridors of wild animals. In the intelligent devices, background subtraction method and CAMShift algorithm are used to detect and track animals in the scene. Then, visual descriptors are used to create representation of unknown objects. In order to achieve the best accuracy in classification, key frame extraction method is used to filtrate an object from detection module. Afterwards, Support Vector Machine is used to classify unknown moving animals.