Automated detection and recognition of wildlife using thermal cameras

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 13778-13793

  Christiansen, Peter ^a   Steen, Kim Arild ^a   Jørgensen, Rasmus Nyholm ^a   Karstoft, Henrik ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

DCT; Feature extraction; KNN; Pattern recognition; Thermal imaging

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURE; ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFRARED IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATED DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; DCT; DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM(DCT); HEAT CHARACTERISTICS; KNN; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS; TEMPORAL INFORMATION;

ANIMALS;

EID: 84905263429     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s140813778     Document Type: Article

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