Bird Species Identifier using Convolutional Neural Network

Abstract

Abstract: In our world, there are above 9000 bird species. Some bird species are being found rarely and if found also prediction becomes very difficult. In order to overcome this problem, we have an effective and simple way to recognize these bird species based on their features. Also, the human ability to recognize the birds through the images is more understandable than audio recognition. So, we have used Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). CNN’s are the strong assemblage of machine learning which have proven efficient in image processing. In this paper, a CNN system classifying bird species is presented and uses the Caltech-UCSD Birds 200 [CUB-200-2011] dataset for training as well as testing purpose. By establishing this dataset and using the algorithm of similarity comparison, this system is proved to achieve good results in practice. By using this method, everyone can easily identify the name of the particular bird which they want to know.