The invention belongs to the technical field of unattended monitoring of wild animals, and particularly discloses a wild
animal body size and age group
estimation method and
system, and the method comprises the steps: synchronously collecting a visible light image and a
thermal infrared temperature map of a wild animal; performing instance segmentation on the visible light image to obtain a binary
mask, and extracting a pixel-level
body size parameter; extracting a temperature distribution vector from the
thermal infrared temperature map; determining an optimal scale factor based on the binary
mask, the pixel-level
body size parameter and the temperature distribution vector; and correcting the pixel-level
body size parameter by using the optimal scale factor, fusing the corrected pixel-level body
size parameter and the temperature distribution vector, inputting the fused and corrected pixel-level body
size parameter and the temperature distribution vector into a double-
branch lightweight regression network, and synchronously outputting a volume agent value, a
weight estimation value and an age group
classification result of the wild animal. The problem that an existing wild
animal monitoring technology cannot meet the requirement for long-term, safe and all-
weather monitoring of rare wild animals in the aspects of scene adaptability,
functional integrity and equipment deployment difficulty is solved.