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Capabilities - Animal Detection

Animal Detection is ConductVision's flagship proven capability, deployed in research institutions worldwide through ConductScience's equipment heritage. Drawing on over ten years of building research-grade equipment for laboratories and field studies — and actively deploying animal tracking systems in production environments — this system identifies 100+ species, tracks individual animals across frames, monitors behavioral patterns, and detects health indicators in livestock. The models are trained on curated scientific datasets — not internet scrapes — ensuring reliable performance across controlled environments, open pastures, and remote wildlife corridors alike. No other general-purpose vision platform can match this depth of real-world deployment in animal detection.

Animal Detection
Species Identified
100+
Individual Re-Identification
Tagless
Behavioral Classifiers
40+

How it works - Animal Detection in three steps

Get started with animal detection in minutes using your existing camera infrastructure.

  • Connect Lab or Field Cameras. Integrate cameras from laboratory overhead rigs, trail cameras, drone feeds, or barn-mounted IP cameras. The platform supports both real-time streams and batch upload of recorded footage for retrospective analysis.
  • Species-Specific AI Models. Specialized detection models identify species, estimate body condition, and classify behaviors such as feeding, resting, grooming, and social interaction. For livestock and lab animals, individual re-identification tracks subjects without physical tags.
  • Deliver Research-Grade Data. Structured observations export directly into research data formats. Alerts trigger on predefined events — a sick animal showing lethargy, a predator entering a corridor, or an animal breaching a virtual fence.

Features

Everything you need for production-grade animal detection.

  • 100+ Species Identification. Recognizes over 100 species across mammals, birds, reptiles, and marine life. Models are continuously expanded with peer-reviewed training datasets.
  • Individual Animal Re-Identification. Distinguishes individual animals by coat pattern, markings, and body shape — enabling longitudinal tracking without physical tags or implants.
  • Behavior Classification. Classifies 40+ behaviors including feeding, resting, locomotion, social interaction, stereotypic movements, and distress indicators. Customizable for specific research protocols.
  • Wildlife Corridor Monitoring. Detects and logs animal crossings at highway underpasses, habitat bridges, and migration routes. Generates crossing frequency reports by species and time of day.
  • Livestock Health Indicators. Monitors gait anomalies, feeding frequency, and isolation behavior that may indicate illness. Designed as an operational monitoring tool — not a diagnostic device.
  • Laboratory Animal Tracking. Overhead camera tracking for rodents in open-field, elevated-plus-maze, Morris water maze, and home-cage environments. Compatible with standard behavioral neuroscience protocols.
  • Batch Video Analysis. Upload recorded trail camera footage or lab videos for offline processing. The system returns structured annotations compatible with BORIS, DeepLabCut, and other ethology tools.
  • Customizable Species Models. Train custom detection models for niche species or specific research populations using your own annotated images. Transfer learning reduces the required training set to as few as 200 labeled images.

Use cases

Real-world applications of animal detection across industries.

Behavioral Neuroscience Research

Researchers spend hours manually scoring rodent behavior from video. Automated tracking and behavior classification reduce scoring time by an order of magnitude while improving inter-rater consistency.

  • Research
  • Pharma

Wildlife Conservation Monitoring

Conservation teams deploy trail cameras across vast areas but lack the personnel to review millions of images. AI-powered species identification filters and catalogs captures automatically.

  • Conservation
  • Government

Livestock Welfare Auditing

Agricultural operations need continuous welfare monitoring across large herds. Automated behavior and gait analysis flags animals requiring veterinary attention before conditions worsen.

  • Agriculture
  • Veterinary

Highway Wildlife Crossing Analysis

Transportation departments invest millions in wildlife crossings but struggle to measure their effectiveness. Automated monitoring quantifies crossing frequency by species and time.

  • Transportation
  • Conservation
  • Government

Aquaculture Stock Monitoring

Fish farms need to monitor feeding behavior, swimming patterns, and mortality events across multiple pens. Underwater camera feeds are processed to detect abnormal behavior and estimate biomass.

  • Agriculture
  • Aquaculture

Pest Intrusion Detection

Food storage and processing facilities must detect rodent and bird intrusions rapidly. Animal Detection identifies pest species in real time and triggers facility management alerts.

  • Food Processing
  • Logistics
  • Manufacturing

Drone-Based Wildlife Surveys

Ecologists use drone flights to survey animal populations across inaccessible terrain. The platform processes aerial video to count individuals, identify species, and map spatial distributions.

  • Conservation
  • Research

See how animal detection works in your environment

Schedule a free discovery call. We will walk through your cameras, your use case, and what our detection models can do for you.

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Technical specifications

Models
YOLOv8 + EfficientNet ensemble with species-specific fine-tuning on curated scientific datasets
Accuracy
100+ species identification with individual re-identification; trained on curated scientific datasets
Latency
<80ms per frame on NVIDIA T4 (species ID); batch mode for trail camera footage
Input Formats
RTSP, ONVIF, MP4, HLS, JPEG batch (trail cameras), underwater camera protocols
Output Formats
JSON, CSV, BORIS-compatible XML, DeepLabCut HDF5, Webhooks
Edge Support
NVIDIA Jetson for field deployment, solar-powered enclosures available, satellite uplink compatible

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