Overcoming the Distance Estimation Bottleneck in Estimating Animal Abundance with Camera Traps
The biodiversity crisis is still accelerating, despite increasing efforts by the international community. Estimating animal abundance is of critical importance to assess, for example, the consequences of land-use change and invasive species on community composition, or the effectiveness of conservation interventions. Various approaches have been developed to estimate abundance of unmarked animal populations. Whereas these approaches differ in methodological details, they all require the estimation of the effective area surveyed in front of a camera trap. Until now camera-to-animal distance measurements are derived by laborious, manual and subjective estimation methods. To overcome this distance estimation bottleneck, this study proposes an automatized pipeline utilizing monocular depth estimation and depth image calibration methods. We are able to reduce the manual effort required by a factor greater than 21 and provide our system at https://timm.haucke.xyz/publications/distance-estimation-animal-abundance
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