A Dataset and Application for Facial Recognition of Individual Gorillas in Zoo Environments

12/08/2020

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by   Otto Brookes, et al.

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We put forward a video dataset with 5k+ facial bounding box annotations across a troop of 7 western lowland gorillas at Bristol Zoo Gardens. Training on this dataset, we implement and evaluate a standard deep learning pipeline on the task of facially recognising individual gorillas in a zoo environment. We show that a basic YOLOv3-powered application is able to perform identifications at 92 and identity voting across short tracklets yields an improved robust performance of 97 research capabilities of zoo environments, we publish the code, video dataset, weights, and ground-truth annotations at data.bris.ac.uk.