METHOD FOR CLUSTERING AND IDENTIFYING ANIMALS BASED ON THE SHAPES, RELATIVE POSITIONS AND OTHER FEATURES OF BODY PARTS

A method for the clustering and identification of animals in acquired images based on physical traits is provided, where a trait feature is a scalar or vector quantity that is a property of a trait and trait distance is a measure of discrepancy between the same trait features of two animals, and also introduced are several different ways of implementing clustering using trait features.