Izembek Lagoon Waterfowl

Overview

This dataset contains 9,267 high-resolution (8688×5792) aerial images from Izembek Lagoon in Alaska, collected to survey waterfowl. The dataset includes 521,270 bounding boxes on waterfowl, with each box identified as one of:

• Brant (424,790 boxes)
• Canada goose (47,561 boxes)
• Gull (5,631 boxes)
• Emperor goose (2,013 boxes)
• Other (5,631 boxes)

All were originally annotated as points, and were converted to boxes as a convenience for detector training. Consequently, the boxes are all identical in size, centered on the original annotation points and sized to the typical size of birds in these images. Approximately half of the images (4,281) are annotated as empty.

This dataset is a subset of the Aerial Photo Imagery from Fall Waterfowl Surveys dataset; all non-empty images from the original dataset are included, but only a small fraction of the empty images are included. The original dataset is the dataset of record; the present dataset is provided as a convenience for training AI models, as (a) some effort was required to convert the annotations to a standard format (import code), and (b) the original dataset is quite large (1.82TB). Because the proportion of empty images has been dramatically reduced in the present dataset, models trained on the subset should be evaluated against the original dataset before making claims about precision and recall as they would apply in a real-world setting.

Citation

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Data format

Annotations are provided in COCO Camera Traps format.

Downloading the data

Metadata is available here.