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ZOOMETRICS - Biometric Identification of Wildlife using Natural Body Marks

This work establishes the possibility for the application of biometrics technologies, developed for human recognition, to the identification of Great Crested Newts, an endangered species, and is based on a collaboration with Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) which has supported the research and supplied the data for the research (contact Prof R Griffiths, DICE, R.A.Griffiths@kent.ac.uk). The paper reports on novel techniques for the segmentation of newt belly patterns and alternative features for their comparison. The conference version of this paper was given the Best Paper Award for Real World Applications at the Emerging Security Technologies conference in 2011.