SAW-IT-Plus Video Dataset

The SAW-IT-Plus dataset contains 11,458 videos collected in the wild, and 22 homemade videos (snake category). Videos are arranged in 8 main categories of animals (frogs - 0, snakes - 1, lizards - 2, birds - 3, small mammals < 2kg - 4, medium or large mammals > 2kg - 5, spiders - 7 and scorpions - 8). Echidnas - originally category 6 – were merged with big mammals. Some videos of crustacea and other reptiles are available but not classified. Empty videos (7,896) were added to allow for further testing of the algorithm. They are separated in 3 categories (details in Table 1).

CSV files are available to detail the species for frogs, lizards, birds and small mammals for each video. Because the videos were mainly collected from real-world data; the number of videos for each animal category are unbalanced (Table 1).

This folder also contains training images used to automatically detect videos containing animals in our overall dataset. More information available in the ReadMe files.

The dataset was collected in Victoria, Australia, from February to October 2021 as part of the ERP22 (formerly ARI-PPD 05) grant.