HotSpotter - Patterned Species Instance Recognition

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Auteurs principaux: Crall, Jonathan P., Stewart, Charles V., Berger-Wolf, Tanya Y., Rubenstein, Daniel I., Sundaresan, Siva R.
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Publié: 2025
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author Crall, Jonathan P.
Stewart, Charles V.
Berger-Wolf, Tanya Y.
Rubenstein, Daniel I.
Sundaresan, Siva R.
author_facet Crall, Jonathan P.
Stewart, Charles V.
Berger-Wolf, Tanya Y.
Rubenstein, Daniel I.
Sundaresan, Siva R.
contents We present HotSpotter, a fast, accurate algorithm for identifying individual animals against a labeled database. It is not species specific and has been applied to Grevy's and plains zebras, giraffes, leopards, and lionfish. We describe two approaches, both based on extracting and matching keypoints or "hotspots". The first tests each new query image sequentially against each database image, generating a score for each database image in isolation, and ranking the results. The second, building on recent techniques for instance recognition, matches the query image against the database using a fast nearest neighbor search. It uses a competitive scoring mechanism derived from the Local Naive Bayes Nearest Neighbor algorithm recently proposed for category recognition. We demonstrate results on databases of more than 1000 images, producing more accurate matches than published methods and matching each query image in just a few seconds.
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spellingShingle HotSpotter - Patterned Species Instance Recognition
Crall, Jonathan P.
Stewart, Charles V.
Berger-Wolf, Tanya Y.
Rubenstein, Daniel I.
Sundaresan, Siva R.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
We present HotSpotter, a fast, accurate algorithm for identifying individual animals against a labeled database. It is not species specific and has been applied to Grevy's and plains zebras, giraffes, leopards, and lionfish. We describe two approaches, both based on extracting and matching keypoints or "hotspots". The first tests each new query image sequentially against each database image, generating a score for each database image in isolation, and ranking the results. The second, building on recent techniques for instance recognition, matches the query image against the database using a fast nearest neighbor search. It uses a competitive scoring mechanism derived from the Local Naive Bayes Nearest Neighbor algorithm recently proposed for category recognition. We demonstrate results on databases of more than 1000 images, producing more accurate matches than published methods and matching each query image in just a few seconds.
title HotSpotter - Patterned Species Instance Recognition
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17605