arXiv:2512.08198cs.CV2025-12中稿 · the 2026 IEEE Inte…被引 1

在微型控制器上实现低功耗动物识别,支持野外实时监控。

Animal Re-Identification on Microcontrollers

  • 针对微控制器设计轻量级动物重识别模型,优化低分辨率输入处理。
  • 仅用每类3张图像即可快速适配新环境,准确率下降极小。
  • 模型体积缩小100倍以上,可在设备端完成全部推理任务。

基于摄像头的动物重识别(Animal Re-ID)可支持大范围户外环境中野生动物监测与精准畜牧管理,尤其适用于无线连接受限的场景。此时推理需直接在项圈标签或基于微控制器(MCU)的低功耗边缘节点上运行,但现有Animal Re-ID模型多为工作站/服务器设计,内存占用大且对输入分辨率要求高,难以部署。本文提出一种设备端框架:首先分析主流模型与MCU硬件间的差距,发现直接知识蒸馏效果有限;其次,基于此分析,系统性地改进以MobileNetV2为基础的CNN架构,适配低分辨率输入;最后,在真实世界数据集上验证,引入数据高效微调策略,仅需每动物身份3张图像即可快速适应新站点。在六个公开Animal Re-ID数据集上,该紧凑模型达到竞争性检索精度,模型规模减少超两个数量级。在自收集的牛只数据集上,部署模型实现全设备端推理,仅轻微损失准确率,且与集群版本相比Top-1准确率不变。结果表明,可在MCU级别实现实用、可适应的Animal Re-ID,为野外大规模部署奠定基础。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Camera-based animal re-identification (Animal Re-ID) can support wildlife monitoring and precision livestock management in large outdoor environments with limited wireless connectivity. In these settings, inference must run directly on collar tags or low-power edge nodes built around microcontrollers (MCUs), yet most Animal Re-ID models are designed for workstations or servers and are too large for devices with small memory and low-resolution inputs. We propose an on-device framework. First, we characterise the gap between state-of-the-art Animal Re-ID models and MCU-class hardware, showing that straightforward knowledge distillation from large teachers offers limited benefit once memory and input resolution are constrained. Second, guided by this analysis, we design a high-accuracy Animal Re-ID architecture by systematically scaling a CNN-based MobileNetV2 backbone for low-resolution inputs. Third, we evaluate the framework with a real-world dataset and introduce a data-efficient fine-tuning strategy to enable fast adaptation with just three images per animal identity at a new site. Across six public Animal Re-ID datasets, our compact model achieves competitive retrieval accuracy while reducing model size by over two orders of magnitude. On a self-collected cattle dataset, the deployed model performs fully on-device inference with only a small accuracy drop and unchanged Top-1 accuracy relative to its cluster version. We demonstrate that practical, adaptable Animal Re-ID is achievable on MCU-class devices, paving the way for scalable deployment in real field environments.

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