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Data release of Paying Attention to Other Animal Detections Improves Camera Trap Classification Models

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Description

Data release of: Paying Attention to Other Animal Detections Improves Camera Trap Classification Models
 
 
Code is available on GitHub : https://github.com/gdussert/MCA_Classifier
 
This repository contains:
 
* models:
   * crop_classifier.pt
   * mca_classifier.pt
* data:
   * serengeti_train: training set of Snapshot Serengeti
   * serengeti_test: test set of Snapshot Serengeti
   * serengeti_toy: toy dataset to quickly test all the scripts, it contains only the pictures of Snapshot Serengeti camera trap location C12
   * safari2024: whole Snapshot Safari 2024 Expansion dataset
   * crop_images.zip: crop images of Snapshot Serengeti camera trap location C12
 
Please cite our paper for the models: 
 
@misc{dussert2025attention,
    author = {Dussert, Gaspard and Dray, Stéphane and Chamaillé-Jammes, Simon and Miele, Vincent},
    title = {Paying Attention to Other Animal Detections Improves Camera Trap Classification Models},
    year = {2025},
    doi = {10.1101/2025.07.15.664849},
    publisher = {bioRxiv},
    type = {preprint},
}
 
Please cite this paper for the Serengeti dataset: 
 
@article{swanson2015snapshot,
  title={Snapshot Serengeti, high-frequency annotated camera trap images of 40 mammalian species in an African savanna},
  author={Swanson, Alexandra and Kosmala, Margaret and Lintott, Chris and Simpson, Robert and Smith, Arfon and Packer, Craig},
  journal={Scientific data},
  volume={2},
  number={1},
  pages={1--14},
  year={2015},
  publisher={Nature Publishing Group}
}

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Software

Repository URL
https://github.com/gdussert/MCA_Classifier
Programming language
Python