Using MLWIC to identify individuals and images with several species

[StephPeriquet]

Hi @mikeyEcology ,

I was wondering if MLWIC could be used to identify individual animals, after the images have been attributed to species? If one would to train a model using only pictures of zebras labeled with individuals names for instance, would it be able to recognise the different individuals? Also, how does the model perform when there are several species in a single frame? Thanks!

[mikeyEcology]

I've been hoping to try using the model to identify individual animals and zebras are probably one of the best options. You would label each individual with a class ID (as is typically done with species) and everything else will be the same. The biggest challenge will be training dataset size. I assume that you don't have a whole lot of classified images for each individual?

The model isn't designed to recognize multiple species. It will likely pick one and potentially have pretty low confidence in that species.

[StephPeriquet]

Thanks for the reply! I don't even have any zebras identified (was using the obvious example, giraffes might be a good one too) but I have leopards and spotted hyaenas. However, you are right the training data set if not very big...

I hope to get to train the model on out own dataset in the coming month, I can keep you updated about the confidence in terms of multiple species.