Improving Wildlife Out-of-Distribution Detection: Africas Big Five
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| author | Muthivhi, Mufhumudzi Huo, Jiahao Gustafsson, Fredrik van Zyl, Terence L. |
| author_facet | Muthivhi, Mufhumudzi Huo, Jiahao Gustafsson, Fredrik van Zyl, Terence L. |
| contents | Mitigating human-wildlife conflict seeks to resolve unwanted encounters between these parties. Computer Vision provides a solution to identifying individuals that might escalate into conflict, such as members of the Big Five African animals. However, environments often contain several varied species. The current state-of-the-art animal classification models are trained under a closed-world assumption. They almost always remain overconfident in their predictions even when presented with unknown classes. This study investigates out-of-distribution (OOD) detection of wildlife, specifically the Big Five. To this end, we select a parametric Nearest Class Mean (NCM) and a non-parametric contrastive learning approach as baselines to take advantage of pretrained and projected features from popular classification encoders. Moreover, we compare our baselines to various common OOD methods in the literature. The results show feature-based methods reflect stronger generalisation capability across varying classification thresholds. Specifically, NCM with ImageNet pre-trained features achieves a 2%, 4% and 22% improvement on AUPR-IN, AUPR-OUT and AUTC over the best OOD methods, respectively. The code can be found here https://github.com/pxpana/BIG5OOD |
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| spellingShingle | Improving Wildlife Out-of-Distribution Detection: Africas Big Five Muthivhi, Mufhumudzi Huo, Jiahao Gustafsson, Fredrik van Zyl, Terence L. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence Mitigating human-wildlife conflict seeks to resolve unwanted encounters between these parties. Computer Vision provides a solution to identifying individuals that might escalate into conflict, such as members of the Big Five African animals. However, environments often contain several varied species. The current state-of-the-art animal classification models are trained under a closed-world assumption. They almost always remain overconfident in their predictions even when presented with unknown classes. This study investigates out-of-distribution (OOD) detection of wildlife, specifically the Big Five. To this end, we select a parametric Nearest Class Mean (NCM) and a non-parametric contrastive learning approach as baselines to take advantage of pretrained and projected features from popular classification encoders. Moreover, we compare our baselines to various common OOD methods in the literature. The results show feature-based methods reflect stronger generalisation capability across varying classification thresholds. Specifically, NCM with ImageNet pre-trained features achieves a 2%, 4% and 22% improvement on AUPR-IN, AUPR-OUT and AUTC over the best OOD methods, respectively. The code can be found here https://github.com/pxpana/BIG5OOD |
| title | Improving Wildlife Out-of-Distribution Detection: Africas Big Five |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06719 |