Regularized logistic regression based classification for infrared images

There is an increase in the bird and bat mortality near wind farms. It is desirable to document and quantify behavior and activity of birds/bats near wind farms. Infrared Imaging is a useful monitoring method for this purpose. However, IR images do not provide information as whether the target is a bird, bat or insect. A logistic regression classifier is used to provide category information of the targets. There are no priori known database of images available for birds, and bats. Features of targets are extracted and used for classification purpose. A database of labeled category based on the features has been created.