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The model is more focused on capturing animal-related features by dynamically adjusting the channel weights, which improves the saliency of key features and increases the accuracy rate in complex backgrounds. The main contribution of this study is the introduction of the channel attention mechanism into the YOLOv8 framework to create a YOLOv8-night model suitable for object detection in nighttime images. When tested on nighttime images, the model performs well with a significantly higher mAP (0.854) than YOLOv8 (0.831), and YOLOv8-night scores 0.856 on mAP_l, which is obviously better than YOLOv8 (0.833) in terms of processing large objects. 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Nighttime wildlife object detection based on YOLOv8-night
Monitoring nocturnal animals in the field is an important task in ecological research and wildlife conservation, but the complexity of nocturnal images and low light conditions make it difficult to cope with traditional image processing methods. To address this problem, researchers have introduced infrared cameras to improve the accuracy of nocturnal animal behaviour observations. Object detection in nighttime images captured by infrared cameras faces several challenges, including low image quality, animal scale variations, occlusion, and pose changes. This study proposes the YOLOv8-night model, which effectively overcomes these challenges by introducing a channel attention mechanism in YOLOv8. The model is more focused on capturing animal-related features by dynamically adjusting the channel weights, which improves the saliency of key features and increases the accuracy rate in complex backgrounds. The main contribution of this study is the introduction of the channel attention mechanism into the YOLOv8 framework to create a YOLOv8-night model suitable for object detection in nighttime images. When tested on nighttime images, the model performs well with a significantly higher mAP (0.854) than YOLOv8 (0.831), and YOLOv8-night scores 0.856 on mAP_l, which is obviously better than YOLOv8 (0.833) in terms of processing large objects. The study provides a reliable technical tool for ecological research, wildlife conservation and environmental monitoring, and offers new methods and insights for the study of nocturnal animal behaviour.
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Electronics Letters is an internationally renowned peer-reviewed rapid-communication journal that publishes short original research papers every two weeks. Its broad and interdisciplinary scope covers the latest developments in all electronic engineering related fields including communication, biomedical, optical and device technologies. Electronics Letters also provides further insight into some of the latest developments through special features and interviews.
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