Bird Specie
Research on bird species is expanding beyond traditional ornithological methods, leveraging computer vision and machine learning to analyze bird behavior, physiology, and habitat. Current efforts focus on developing robust 3D reconstruction techniques from video and image data, often employing deep learning models like UNet and transformer architectures, to improve accuracy and efficiency in tasks such as bird tracking and species identification. These advancements have significant implications for ecological monitoring and conservation, enabling more efficient data collection and analysis for understanding avian populations and their responses to environmental changes. Furthermore, the development of these techniques is also impacting other fields, such as autonomous driving, where similar bird's-eye-view perception models are being developed.
Papers
RoadBEV: Road Surface Reconstruction in Bird's Eye View
Tong Zhao, Lei Yang, Yichen Xie, Mingyu Ding, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Yintao Wei
DaF-BEVSeg: Distortion-aware Fisheye Camera based Bird's Eye View Segmentation with Occlusion Reasoning
Senthil Yogamani, David Unger, Venkatraman Narayanan, Varun Ravi Kumar