Animal Biometrics

Dr Santosh KumarDr Santosh Kumar is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. Prior to joining the International Institute of Information Technology-Naya Raipur (IIIT-Naya Raipur), Chhattisgarh, he was a Ph.D. scholar at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) (IIT (BHU)), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. He is a member of the Computer Society and the Association for Computing Machinery. He has published and presented over 25 research papers including book chapters in reputed journals and at numerous reputed national and international conferences. His research interests include Animal Biometrics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Wireless Sensors, and the Internet of Things (IoT).Dr Sanjay Kumar SinghDr Sanjay Kumar Singh completed his B.Tech. in Computer Engineering, M.Tech. in Computer Applications and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), (IIT (BHU)), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. He is a Certified Novell Engineer (CNE) and Certified Novell Administrator (CNA) from Novell Netware, USA. He is a member of LIMSTE, the IEE, the International Association of Engineers and the ISCE. His research areas include Biometrics, Computer Vision, Image Processing, Video Processing, Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data.Dr Rishav SinghDr Rishav Singh received his B.Tech. from C. V. Raman College of Engineering (CVRCE), Orissa, India, in 2009. He completed his M.Tech. at Jaypee University of Information Technology (JUIT), India, in 2011 and his Ph.D. at the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) (IIT(ISM)), Dhanbad, in 2017. He has extensive IT experience, with proven expertise in the full software development lifecycle including requirement analysis, designing, coding, deploying the code in different environments and implementation of software applications using R, Cassandra, Machine Learning, Cloudera Hadoop (Map-Reduce), HBase and Hive. His research interests include Big Data & Analytics, Machine Learning, Biometrics and Image Processing.Dr Amit Kumar SinghDr Amit Kumar Singh is currently working as an Assistant Professor (Senior Grade) at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jaypee University of Information Technology (JUIT), India. He completed his Ph.D. degree at the Department of Computer Engineering, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Kurukshetra in 2015. Recently, Dr Singh was appointed as Associate Editor of IEEE Access and Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP), Springer. He has published and presented over 50 research papers in reputed journals and at various national and international conferences. His important research contributions include developing watermarking methods that offer a good trade-off between major parameters i.e., perceptual quality, robustness, embedding capacity and the security of watermark embedding into digital images. His research interests include Data Hiding, Biometrics and Cryptography.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Animal Biometric System.- Chapter 3. Animal Biometrics based Approaches.- Chapter 4. Classical Animal Recognition Methodology and Frameworks.- Chapter 5. Animal Biometrics based Recognition Systems (Based on Current State of the Art Approaches).- Chapter 6. Representation and Identification of Species: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Models.- Chapter 7. Emerging Trends and Future Challenges.