Published January 26, 2026
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Data and code release of Paying Attention to Other Animal Detections Improves Camera Trap Classification Models
Authors/Creators
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Description
Data and code release of: Paying Attention to Other Animal Detections Improves Camera Trap Classification Models
Paper in open-access (Methods in Ecology and Evolution) : https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/2041-210x.70260
Code is available on GitHub : https://github.com/gdussert/MCA_Classifier and also archived in MCA_Classifier-code.zip
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
* speciesnet.zip: SpeciesNet predictions for all images, as well as the script used to compute the accuracy reported in the manuscript.
* code:
* MCA_Classifier-code.zip
Please cite our paper for the models:
@article{dussert_paying_2026,
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 = {2026},
url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/2041-210x.70260},
doi = {10.1111/2041-210x.70260},
journal = {Methods in Ecology and Evolution},
publisher={Wiley Online Library}
}
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 = {2026},
url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/2041-210x.70260},
doi = {10.1111/2041-210x.70260},
journal = {Methods in Ecology and Evolution},
publisher={Wiley Online Library}
}
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}
}
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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Additional details
Software
- Repository URL
- https://github.com/gdussert/MCA_Classifier
- Programming language
- Python