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In Situ Cane Toad Recognition Publisher



Konovalov DA1 ; Jahangard S2 ; Schwarzkopf L1
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  1. 1. College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia
  2. 2. Isfahan University of Medical Science, Isfahan, Iran

Source: 2018 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2018 Published:2019


Abstract

Cane toads are invasive, toxic to native predators, compete with native insectivores, and have a devastating impact on Australian ecosystems, prompting the Australian government to list toads as a key threatening process under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. Mechanical cane toad traps could be made more native-fauna friendly if they could distinguish invasive cane toads from native species. Here we designed and trained a Convolution Neural Network (CNN) starting from the Xception CNN. The XToadGmp toad-recognition CNN we developed was trained end-to-end using heat-map Gaussian targets. After training, XToadGmp required minimum image pre/post-processing and when tested on 720×1280 shaped images, it achieved 97.1% classification accuracy on 1863 toad and 2892 not-toad test images, which were not used in training. © 2018 IEEE.