{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/deep-object-detection-for-waterbird","title":"Deep object detection for waterbird monitoring using aerial imagery","arxiv_id":"2210.04868","date":"2022-10-10","proceeding":null,"authors":["Krish Kabra","Alexander Xiong","Wenbin Li","Minxuan Luo","William Lu","Raul Garcia","Dhananjay Vijay","Jiahui Yu","Maojie Tang","Tianjiao Yu","Hank Arnold","Anna Vallery","Richard Gibbons","Arko Barman"],"abstract":"Monitoring of colonial waterbird nesting islands is essential to tracking waterbird population trends, which are used for evaluating ecosystem health and informing conservation management decisions. Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, have emerged as a viable technology to precisely monitor waterbird colonies. However, manually counting waterbirds from hundreds, or potentially thousands, of aerial images is both difficult and time-consuming. In this work, we present a deep learning pipeline that can be used to precisely detect, count, and monitor waterbirds using aerial imagery collected by a commercial drone. By utilizing convolutional neural network-based object detectors, we show that we can detect 16 classes of waterbird species that are commonly found in colonial nesting islands along the Texas coast. Our experiments using Faster R-CNN and RetinaNet object detectors give mean interpolated average precision scores of 67.9% and 63.1% respectively.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.04868v2","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.04868v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"deep-object-detection-for-waterbird","repo_url":"https://github.com/riced2klab/audubon_f21","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"management","task_name":"Management"},{"task_slug":"object","task_name":"Object"},{"task_slug":"object-detection","task_name":"Object Detection"}],"methods":[{"method_slug":"1x1-convolution","method_name":"1x1 Convolution"},{"method_slug":"convolution","method_name":"Convolution"},{"method_slug":"fpn","method_name":"FPN"},{"method_slug":"faster-r-cnn","method_name":"Faster R-CNN"},{"method_slug":"focal-loss","method_name":"Focal Loss"},{"method_slug":"rpn","method_name":"RPN"},{"method_slug":"retinanet","method_name":"RetinaNet"},{"method_slug":"roipool","method_name":"RoIPool"},{"method_slug":"softmax","method_name":"Softmax"}],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}