Automated face recognition of rhesus macaques.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rhesus macaques are widely used in biomedical research. Automated behavior monitoring can be useful in various fields (including neuroscience), as well as having applications to animal welfare but current technology lags behind that developed for other species. One difficulty facing developers is the reliable identification of individual macaques within a group especially as pair- and group-housing of macaques becomes standard. Current published methods require either implantation or wearing of a tracking device.

New method

I present face recognition, in combination with face detection, as a method to non-invasively identify individual rhesus macaques in videos. The face recognition method utilizes local-binary patterns in combination with a local discriminant cla

SUBMITTER: Witham CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5909037 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature