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Evaluating a tandem human-machine approach to labelling of wildlife in remote camera monitoring
Remote cameras (“trail cameras”) are a popular tool for non-invasive, continuous wildlife monitoring, and as they become more prevalent in wildlife research, machine learning (ML) is increasingly used to automate or accelerate the labor-intensive process of labelling (i.e., tagging) photos. Human-machine hybrid tagging approaches have been shown to greatly increase tagging efficiency (i.e., time to tag a single image). However, those potential increases hinge on the extent to which an ML model makes correct vs. incorrect predictions. We performed an experiment using a ML model that produces bounding boxes around animals, people, and vehicles in remote camera imagery (MegaDetector), to consider the impact of a ML model’s performance on its ability to accelerate human labeling. Six participants tagged trail camera images collected from 12 sites in Vermont and Maine, USA (January-September 2022) using three tagging methods (one with ML bounding box assistance and two without assistance).
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Laurence Clarfeld |
Publication Date | 2023-08-30 |
Beginning Date of Data | 2022-01-01 |
Ending Date of Data | 2022-09-30 |
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DOI | https://doi.org/10.5066/P9FGUQEZ |
Citation | Clarfeld, L., Donovan, T.M., Siren, A., Mulhall, B., Bernier, E., Farrell, J., Lunde, G., Hardy, N., Abrams, R.H., Staats, S., and McLellan, S., 2023, Evaluating a tandem human-machine approach to labelling of wildlife in remote camera monitoring: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9FGUQEZ. |
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Metadata Date | 2023-08-30 |
Related Publication | There was no related primary publication associated with this data release. |
Citations of these data | No citations of these data are known at this time. |
Access | public |
License | http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/ |
Harvest Date: 2023-08-31T04:45:23.366Z