Hey all,
out of curiosity when looking at a photo I had taken of a flock of rooks last winter, I wondered just how many birds I had on this one frame. Not being versed in quickly estimating numbers of birds, I started to count and then stopped - surly a machine can do this better than I!
I had some fun with image processing software to come up with 535 rooks:
http://alpenglow.info/2012/08/07/how-to-count-the-birds-in-a-photo-of-a-flock-automatically/
Now the question - I have looked for other hints at how to do this properly, or if there is even better suited software out there, without success. I might be missing the correct search terms, or maybe it is only the scientific subsection of birders who do this?
Any pointers to more information appreciated!
Greetings,
Christof
out of curiosity when looking at a photo I had taken of a flock of rooks last winter, I wondered just how many birds I had on this one frame. Not being versed in quickly estimating numbers of birds, I started to count and then stopped - surly a machine can do this better than I!
I had some fun with image processing software to come up with 535 rooks:
http://alpenglow.info/2012/08/07/how-to-count-the-birds-in-a-photo-of-a-flock-automatically/
Now the question - I have looked for other hints at how to do this properly, or if there is even better suited software out there, without success. I might be missing the correct search terms, or maybe it is only the scientific subsection of birders who do this?
Any pointers to more information appreciated!
Greetings,
Christof