Identification of Age, Plumage, and Sex of Bird Species Using Pre-Trained Deep Convolutional Neural Network

The research aims to identify the age, plumage, and sex of bird species using standard Pre-trained Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (Pre-DCNNs). The proposed work involves collecting various bird images, which are then used for training and validating the pre-trained DCNNs. The dataset contains 200 images of four bird species. The dataset was split into twelve labeled classes of images based on age, plumage, and sex. The standard image manipulation techniques such as cropping, flipping, mirroring, rotating, shearing, and skewing were used as image augmentation techniques to increase the size of the proposed dataset. The proposed data is preprocessed, including feature extraction and data cleaning, to ensure the performance of the Pre-Trained DCNNs. The Pre-Trained DCNNs were trained on 90% of the dataset to recognize patterns in bird images. The accuracy of the pre-trained DCNNs was evaluated using metrics such as classification accuracy. The research acknowledged the advantages and limitations of the standard Pre-Trained DCNNs on the age, plumage, and sex of birds using the images. Also, it compares the performance of the Pre-Trained DCNNs on the proposed bird species image dataset.