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Development of a Slow Loris Computer Vision Detection Model

Authors :
Yujie Lei
Ying Xiang
Yuhui Zhu
Yan Guan
Yu Zhang
Xiao Yang
Xiaoli Yao
Tingxuan Li
Meng Xie
Jiong Mu
Qingyong Ni
Source :
Animals, Vol 12, Iss 12, p 1553 (2022)
Publication Year :
2022
Publisher :
MDPI AG, 2022.

Abstract

The slow loris (Genus Nycticebus) is a group of small, nocturnal and venomous primates with a distinctive locomotion mode. The detection of slow loris plays an important role in the subsequent individual identification and behavioral recognition and thus contributes to formulating targeted conservation strategies, particularly in reintroduction and post-release monitoring. However, fewer studies have been conducted on efficient and accurate detection methods of this endangered taxa. The traditional methods to detect the slow loris involve long-term observation or watching surveillance video repeatedly, which would involve manpower and be time consuming. Because humans cannot maintain a high degree of attention for a long time, they are also prone to making missed detections or false detections. Due to these observational challenges, using computer vision to detect slow loris presence and activity is desirable. This article establishes a novel target detection dataset based on monitoring videos of captive Bengal slow loris (N. bengalensis) from the wildlife rescue centers in Xishuangbanna and Pu’er, Yunnan, China. The dataset is used to test two improvement schemes based on the YOLOv5 network: (1) YOLOv5-CBAM + TC, the attention mechanism and deconvolution are introduced; (2) YOLOv5-SD, the small object detection layer is added. The results demonstrate that the YOLOv5-CBAM + TC effectively improves the detection effect. At the cost of increasing the model size by 0.6 MB, the precision rate, the recall rate and the mean average precision (mAP) are increased by 2.9%, 3.7% and 3.5%, respectively. The YOLOv5-CBAM + TC model can be used as an effective method to detect individual slow loris in a captive environment, which helps to realize slow loris face and posture recognition based on computer vision.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
20762615
Volume :
12
Issue :
12
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Animals
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.7ac6b6930d844c7db5172d4ebe958c03
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3390/ani12121553