Captive Animal Stress Study by Video Analysis

A fusion technique to synthesize the trajectory of a captive panda and its movement analysis to detect stress episodes are presented. The scene is a zoo environment that reproduces the natural habitat of a panda. It is visualized by four cameras. There were implemented the following steps: a) panda localization for each camera; b) trajectory synthesis from all views trajectories and c) trajectory filtering and analysis. Five categories of stress episodes characterized by movement patterns are identified.