Webcams for bird detection and monitoring: A demonstration study

Sensors

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 3480-3503

  Verstraeten, Willem W ^a   Vermeulen, Bart ^a   Stuckens, Jan ^a   Lhermitte, Stefaan ^b   van der Zande, Dimitry ^a   van Ranst, Marc ^c   Coppin, Pol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOLOGÍA   (Chile)

^c REGA INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bird migration; Object detection; Object tracking; Webcams

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND SUBTRACTION; BIRD MIGRATION; DETECTION CAPABILITY; MAXIMUM VELOCITY; MIGRATION PATTERNS; OBJECT DETECTION; OBJECT TRACKING; WEBCAMS;

STEREO VISION;

BIRDS;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ECOLOGY; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; ECOLOGY; INTERNET; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTOGRAPHY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77951745212     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s100403480     Document Type: Article

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