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ArticlePattern analysis and applications : PAA2025

Animal re-identification in video through track clustering.

Francis J Williams, Samuel L Hennessey, Ludmila I Kuncheva

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Francis J WilliamsSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangor University, Dean Street, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 1UT UK.
Samuel L HennesseySchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangor University, Dean Street, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 1UT UK.
Ludmila I KunchevaSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangor University, Dean Street, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 1UT UK.

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Abstract

Monitoring a group of animals would greatly benefit from automated animal re-identification from video. Multiple Object Tracking alone does not provide a sufficiently good re-identification, hence we propose to augment the process by further clustering the output tracks. Unlike datasets for person and vehicle identification, existing animal datasets are not substantial enough to train an advanced model for conventional clustering. In this paper, we present a Classification-Based Clustering method (CBC) which employs track labels and temporal constraints to train a bespoke model for each video dataset. Our proposed method works better than using the tracks alone as animal identities. It also outperforms 13 alternative clustering methods applied to the tracking results.

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Animal monitoringConstrained clusteringUnsupervised learningVideo-based identification

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PMID40547929
PMCPMC12178989

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