arXiv:2510.08775cs.CVcs.AI2025-10

用AI自动提取啄羊鹦鹉视频关键帧,实现无损个体识别。

Re-Identifying Kākā with AI-Automated Video Key Frame Extraction

  • 结合目标检测与光流分析,自动筛选高质量视频帧。
  • 在自建喂食器视频上实现高精度啄羊鹦鹉重识别。
  • 无需物理标记,适合野外生态监测应用。

准确识别和重识别个体动物对野生动物种群监测至关重要。传统方法如鸟类腿环标记耗时且具侵入性。人工智能尤其是计算机视觉的发展为智能保护和自动化提供了新可能。本研究提出一种独特流程,从新西兰受威胁的森林鹦鹉——啄羊鹦鹉(Nestor meridionalis)的视频中提取高质量关键帧。尽管关键帧提取在人物重识别中已有研究,但在野生动物领域应用有限。通过自建喂食器采集视频,我们采用无监督方法:结合YOLO与Grounding DINO进行目标检测,利用光流模糊检测剔除低质量帧,用DINOv2编码图像,并通过聚类方法识别代表性关键帧。结果表明,该方法生成的图像集在啄羊鹦鹉重识别任务中表现优异,为未来在更复杂环境下的媒体数据应用奠定基础。该非侵入式、高效的方法为个体识别提供了替代传统标记的新路径,有助于提升种群监测能力。本研究推动了生态学与保护生物学中新型监测技术的发展。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Accurate recognition and re-identification of individual animals is essential for successful wildlife population monitoring. Traditional methods, such as leg banding of birds, are time consuming and invasive. Recent progress in artificial intelligence, particularly computer vision, offers encouraging solutions for smart conservation and efficient automation. This study presents a unique pipeline for extracting high-quality key frames from videos of kākā (Nestor meridionalis), a threatened forest-dwelling parrot in New Zealand. Key frame extraction is well-studied in person re-identification, however, its application to wildlife is limited. Using video recordings at a custom-built feeder, we extract key frames and evaluate the re-identification performance of our pipeline. Our unsupervised methodology combines object detection using YOLO and Grounding DINO, optical flow blur detection, image encoding with DINOv2, and clustering methods to identify representative key frames. The results indicate that our proposed key frame selection methods yield image collections which achieve high accuracy in kākā re-identification, providing a foundation for future research using media collected in more diverse and challenging environments. Through the use of artificial intelligence and computer vision, our non-invasive and efficient approach provides a valuable alternative to traditional physical tagging methods for recognising kākā individuals and therefore improving the monitoring of populations. This research contributes to developing fresh approaches in wildlife monitoring, with applications in ecology and conservation biology.

动物识别计算机视觉生态保护AI监控

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