Visual Informatics Tools for Supporting Large-Scale Collaborative Wildlife Monitoring with Citizen Scientists

IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 73-86

  He, Zhihai ^a   Kays, Roland ^b   Zhang, Zhi ^a   Ning, Guanghan ^a   Huang, Chen ^a   Han, Tony X ^a   Millspaugh, Josh ^a   Forrester, Tavis ^c   McShea, William ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTER VISION; DATA MINING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ECOLOGY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SCIENCE;

BIOMETRIC FEATURE EXTRACTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; IMAGE PROCESSING AND COMPUTER VISION; INTEGRATED CAMERAS; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; SPECIES CLASSIFICATION; VISUAL INFORMATICS; WILDLIFE MONITORING;

ANIMALS;

EID: 84962695859     PISSN: 1531636X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCAS.2015.2510200     Document Type: Article

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