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- Title
AI Enabled IoRT Framework for Rodent Activity Monitoring in a False Ceiling Environment.
- Authors
Ramalingam, Balakrishnan; Tun, Thein; Mohan, Rajesh Elara; Gómez, Braulio Félix; Cheng, Ruoxi; Balakrishnan, Selvasundari; Mohan Rayaguru, Madan; Hayat, Abdullah Aamir
- Abstract
Routine rodent inspection is essential to curbing rat-borne diseases and infrastructure damages within the built environment. Rodents find false ceilings to be a perfect spot to seek shelter and construct their habitats. However, a manual false ceiling inspection for rodents is laborious and risky. This work presents an AI-enabled IoRT framework for rodent activity monitoring inside a false ceiling using an in-house developed robot called "Falcon". The IoRT serves as a bridge between the users and the robots, through which seamless information sharing takes place. The shared images by the robots are inspected through a Faster RCNN ResNet 101 object detection algorithm, which is used to automatically detect the signs of rodent inside a false ceiling. The efficiency of the rodent activity detection algorithm was tested in a real-world false ceiling environment, and detection accuracy was evaluated with the standard performance metrics. The experimental results indicate that the algorithm detects rodent signs and 3D-printed rodents with a good confidence level.
- Subjects
OBJECT recognition (Computer vision); RODENTS; CEILINGS; ARTIFICIAL intelligence; HANTAVIRUS diseases
- Publication
Sensors (14248220), 2021, Vol 21, Issue 16, p5326
- ISSN
1424-8220
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/s21165326