================== WBIA - WildBook IA

.. image:: http://i.imgur.com/TNCiEBe.png :alt: "(Note: the rhino and wildebeest matches may be dubious. Other species do work well though")

WBIA program for the storage and management of images and derived data for use in computer vision algorithms. It aims to compute who an animal is, what species an animal is, and where an animal is with the ultimate goal being to ask important why biological questions.

This project is the Machine Learning (ML) / computer vision component of the WildBook project: See https://github.com/WildMeOrg/. This project is an actively maintained fork of the popular IBEIS (Image Based Ecological Information System) software suite for wildlife conservation. The original IBEIS project is maintained by Jon Crall (@Erotemic) at https://github.com/Erotemic/ibeis. The IBEIS toolkit originally was a wrapper around HotSpotter, which original binaries can be downloaded from: http://cs.rpi.edu/hotspotter/

Currently the system is build around a SQLite database, a web GUI, and matplotlib visualizations. Algorithms employed are: convolutional neural network detection and localization and classification, hessian-affine keypoint detection, SIFT keypoint description, LNBNN identification using approximate nearest neighbors.

Support

While WBIA can be set up independently, the Wild Me team is not able to assist with independent model training. Support is limited to system setup in Docker at this time.

Requirements

Python 3.7+
OpenCV 3.4.10
Python dependencies listed in requirements.txt

Installation Instructions

.. code:: bash

git clone https://github.com/WildMeOrg/wildbook-ia.git
cd wildbook-ia/devops
sudo ./build.sh wbia-base wbia-provision wbia

If your build times out, run the command again. The previous run is cached and the build will advance. Note that you cannot tag this build.

Docker


The WBIA software is built and deployed as a Docker image `wildme/wbia`.  You can download and run the pre-configured instance from the command line using:

.. code:: bash

    # Install Docker - https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/
    docker pull wildme/wbia:latest
    docker run -p 84:5000 wildme/wbia:latest bash

This image is built using the multi-stage Dockerfiles in `devops/`. Once the container is up and running, go to `localhost:84` to see the WBIA landing page.

Dependencies

This project depends on an array of other repositories for functionality.

First Party Toolkits (Required)

First Party Dependencies for Third Party Libraries (Required)

First Party Plug-ins (Optional)

Deprecated Toolkits (Deprecated)

Plug-in Templates (Reference)

Miscellaneous (Reference)

Citation

If you use this code or its models in your research, please cite:

.. code:: text

@inproceedings{crall2013hotspotter,
    title={Hotspotter — patterned species instance recognition},
    author={Crall, Jonathan P and Stewart, Charles V and Berger-Wolf, Tanya Y and Rubenstein, Daniel I and Sundaresan, Siva R},
    booktitle={2013 IEEE workshop on applications of computer vision (WACV)},
    pages={230--237},
    year={2013},
    organization={IEEE}
}

@inproceedings{parham2018animal,
    title={An animal detection pipeline for identification},
    author={Parham, Jason and Stewart, Charles and Crall, Jonathan and Rubenstein, Daniel and Holmberg, Jason and Berger-Wolf, Tanya},
    booktitle={2018 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)},
    pages={1075--1083},
    year={2018},
    organization={IEEE}
}

@inproceedings{berger2015ibeis,
    title={IBEIS: Image-based ecological information system: From pixels to science and conservation},
    author={Berger-Wolf, TY and Rubenstein, DI and Stewart, CV and Holmberg, J and Parham, J and Crall, J},
    booktitle={Bloomberg Data for Good Exchange Conference, New York, NY, USA},
    volume={2},
    year={2015}
}

@article{berger2017wildbook,
    title={Wildbook: Crowdsourcing, computer vision, and data science for conservation},
    author={Berger-Wolf, Tanya Y and Rubenstein, Daniel I and Stewart, Charles V and Holmberg, Jason A and Parham, Jason and Menon, Sreejith and Crall, Jonathan and Van Oast, Jon and Kiciman, Emre and Joppa, Lucas},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.08880},
    year={2017}
}

Documentation

The documentation is built and available online at wildmeorg.github.io/wildbook-ia/ <http://wildmeorg.github.io/wildbook-ia/>_. However, if you need to build a local copy of the source, the following instructions can be used.

.. code:: bash

checkout the source code

install the project in development mode

pip install -e .

build the docs

scripts/build-docs.sh

Then open the html file at docs/build/html/index.html.

Code Style and Development Guidelines

Contributing


It's recommended that you use ``pre-commit`` to ensure linting procedures are run
on any commit you make. (See also `pre-commit.com <https://pre-commit.com/>`_)

Reference `pre-commit's installation instructions <https://pre-commit.com/#install>`_ for software installation on your OS/platform. After you have the software installed, run ``pre-commit install`` on the command line. Now every time you commit to this project's code base the linter procedures will automatically run over the changed files.  To run pre-commit on files preemtively from the command line use:

.. code:: bash

    git add .
    pre-commit run

    # or

    pre-commit run --all-files

Brunette

Our code base has been formatted by Brunette, which is a fork and more configurable version of Black (https://black.readthedocs.io/en/stable/).

Flake8


Try to conform to PEP8.  You should set up your preferred editor to use flake8 as its Python linter, but pre-commit will ensure compliance before a git commit is completed.

To run flake8 from the command line use:

.. code:: bash

    flake8

This will use the flake8 configuration within ``setup.cfg``,
which ignores several errors and stylistic considerations.
See the ``setup.cfg`` file for a full and accurate listing of stylistic codes to ignore.

PyTest

Our code uses Google-style documentation tests (doctests) that uses pytest and xdoctest to enable full support. To run the tests from the command line use:

.. code:: bash