Parameter-free clustering: Application to fawns detection

Many fawns and other wild animals are killed by mowing machines every year. To prevent them from being killed or injured, a sensor system is being developed to detect the fawns hidden in meadows under mowing. Beside a microwave radar system, two cameras (thermal infrared and RGB) take a picture at the mower´s current location. This contribution focuses on the compression-based algorithm that will be adopted to detect the locations containing a fawn hiding in the grass: such approach, being parameter-free, allows performing a fully unsupervised clustering by exploiting the intrinsic properties of data compression to estimate the amount of shared information between two images.