A Investigation of Individual Detection Method for Monkey Capture System Using CNN

Abstract

In recent years, wild macaques have been damaging crops in mountainous areas in Japan. Since monkeys live in groups, it is necessary to capture all the monkeys in a group to prevent damage. Also, once a monkey is released from a trap, it learns and the group of monkeys will not approach the trap. Therefore, we need a system that can detect when a group of monkeys enters a trap by using image recognition. Also, unlike other animals, monkeys are active during the daytime in search of food. Therefore, the image recognition system needs to be designed to take into account the effects of sunlight outdoors. The goal of this study is to detect a group of monkeys. In this paper, we investigate a method of detecting and measuring individual monkeys as a way to detect a group of monkeys from an image.