Impact Factor (2025): 6.9
DOI Prefix: 10.47001/IRJIET
The
relentless destruction of ecosystems, climate change, and human interference
has put biodiversity at risk, resulting in the swift downfall of already
endangered species within affected regions. Conservation of biodiversity is
crucial for the protection of ecosystems, yet, tracking biodiversity using
manually conducted field surveys or camera trapping techniques is highly
inefficient in terms of time, labor, and accuracy. This article proposes a novel
approach for improved tracking of endangered species using AI driven data
fusion for multi-modal deep learning architecture. This model employs remote
sensing techniques such as LiDAR, audio, and RGB and thermal imaging to
reinforce species detection, behavior analysis, and mitigation of localization
issues. For object detection and tracking, the proposed system implements the
utilization of YOLOv8 + DeepSORT, while image recognition is solved using
Vision Transformers (ViTs) and species interaction analysis is conducted using
hybrid CNN-GNN models. In addition, the model employs Contrastive Learning and
Meta-Learning methods in the rare samples, along with Federated Learning that
allows for model training on various data sets without compromising privacy.
The results obtained from the experiments reveal that the proposed framework is
remarkably more efficient than the current existing methods.
Country : India
IRJIET, Volume 9, Special Issue of INSPIRE’25 April 2025 pp. 76-84