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Animal Biometrics: Concepts and Recent Application

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This chapter presents a brief introduction of the animal biometrics followed by the major characteristics, advantages, potential applications, and interdisciplinary relevance of animal biometrics recognition system in the field of ecology. Further, the chapter includes the general framework of animal biometrics recognition systems along with major components for detection and identification of species or individual animal along with some state-of-the-art animal biometrics recognition systems. Furthermore, the chapter introduces the population distribution of different species, technological challenges and recommendations for animal biometrics. Finally the community, communication, data and tool sharing are also included to provide the better collaboration to encourage the multidisciplinary researches in the field of animal biometrics.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Dr. SPM IIIT Naya Raipur, Naya Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India

    Santosh Kumar

  2. Department of Computer Science Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (B.H.U), Varanasi, 221005, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Sanjay Kumar Singh

  3. Department of Computer Science Engineering, Bennett University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Rishav Singh

  4. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Solan, Himachal Pradesh, India

    Amit Kumar Singh

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Kumar, S., Singh, S.K., Singh, R., Singh, A.K. (2017). Animal Biometrics: Concepts and Recent Application. In: Animal Biometrics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7956-6_1

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