DynAIkonTrap.filtering.animal#

This module provides a generic interface to an animal detector. The system is fairly agnostic of the specific animal detection mechanism beings used, as the input to the AnimalFilter is a JPEG image and the output a confidence in the image containing an animal.

A WCS-trained Tiny YOLOv4 model is used in this implementation, but any other architecture could be substituted in its place easily. Such a substitution would not require any changes to the module interface.

Classes

AnimalFilter(settings)

Animal filter stage to indicate if a frame contains an animal

class AnimalFilter(settings: AnimalFilterSettings)#

Animal filter stage to indicate if a frame contains an animal

Parameters

settings (AnimalFilterSettings) – Settings for the filter

run(image: bytes) bool#

The same as run_raw(), but with a threshold applied. This function outputs a boolean to indicate if the confidence is at least as large as the threshold

Parameters

image (bytes) – The image frame to be analysed in JPEG format

Returns

True if the confidence in animal presence is at least the threshold, otherwise False

Return type

bool

run_raw(image: bytes) float#

Run the animal filter on the image to give a confidence that the image frame contains an animal

Parameters

image (bytes) – The image frame to be analysed in JPEG format

Returns

Confidence in the output containing an animal as a decimal fraction

Return type

float