Internally funded project
Acronym: Team VERA
Start date : 01.01.2021
Website: https://team-vera.github.io/
Digitization is advancing at a high pace in all areas of our lives. The development of algorithms based on artificial intelligence and more extensive and better data sets are creating new opportunities in many areas of science.
Nevertheless, it is common for many biologists, veterinarians, and animal caretakers to observe the animals manually, which is very time- and labor-expensive and comes with severe limitations. The development of an automated camera-based system seems to be self-evident.
The automated analysis of video footage from surveillance cameras is a possibility to evaluate activity/inactivity and stereotypy of the animals as well as their enclosure use over long periods of time and thus allows an objective assessment. In the project's next phase, further behavior analysis will be added (for example, secondary behavior such as feeding, playful behavior, or interaction). The most challenging step for such a system is the re-identification (reID) of individual animals in every camera perspective