Camouflaged Detection: Optimization-Based Computer Vision for Alligator sinensis with Low Detectability in Complex Wild Environments
Abstract The Alligator sinensis is among the world's rarest wild animals, often camouflaged to blend seamlessly with its natural habitat. This camouflage complicates detection efforts by both humans and automated systems, underscoring the urgent need for advanced wildlife monitoring technologies. To address this, we introduce YOLO v8-SIM, a novel detection method designed to significantly boost identification accuracy. The YOLO v8-SIM employs an advanced dual-layer attention mechanism, a refined Inner-IoU optimized loss function, and a Slim Neck cross-layer hopping technique. Our findings indicate that the model achieves a precision of 91%, a recall of 89.9%, and a mean average precision (mAP) of 92.3% at an IoU threshold of 0.5, with a frame rate of 72.21 FPS, excelling in detecting partially visible or smaller objects. Further enhancing our efforts, we propose an open-source dataset featuring camouflaged Alligator sinensis in their natural habitat. These advancements collectively contribute to the improved detection of camouflaged species, thereby advancing biodiversity monitoring and protection and aiding ecosystem sustainability.
Single Scale Inference on VGA resolution（max side is equal to 640 and scale).
COD10K:https://paperswithcode.com/dataset/cod10k
Our dataset:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CsL3lZkf927yPItMYKMOfuFpHWDwqQ2k/view?usp=drive_link
( Some images may not be allowed to be disclosed according to the copyright-related regulations of Alligator sinensis Research Center of Anhui Province )
git clone https://github.com/yolov8-SIM # clone
cd yolov8-SIM
pip install -r requirements.txt # installpython3 test_widerface.py --weights 'your test model' --img-size 640
cd widerface_evaluate
python3 evaluation.py
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If you think this work is useful for you, please cite
{
Yantong Liu, Sai Che, Liwei Ai, Chuanxiang Song, Zheyu Zhang, Yongkang Zhou, Xiao Yang, Chen Xian, Camouflage detection: Optimization-based computer vision for Alligator sinensis with low detectability in complex wild environments, Ecological Informatics, 2024, 102802, ISSN 1574-9541, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2024.102802.
}
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