Federated Learning and Blockchain-Based Collaborative Framework for Real-Time Wild Life Monitoring
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Effective wildlife monitoring in hilly and rural areas can protect communities and diminish human-wildlife conflicts. A collaborative framework may overcome challenges like inadequate data integrity and security, declining detection accuracy over time, and delays in critical decision-making. The proposed study aims to develop a real-time wildlife monitoring framework using Federated Learning and blockchain to improve conservation strategies. Min-max normalization enhances training data and Elastic Weight Consolidation (EWC) for real-time adaptation. The improvised YOLOv8+EWC enables real-time classification and continual learning and prevents catastrophic forgetting. It also automates actions based on detection results using smart contracts and ensures secure, transparent data management with blockchain. Compared to existing classifiers such as Deep Neural Network, Dense-YOLO4, and WilDect: YOLO, YOLOv8+EWC performs exceptionally well across several metrics, accomplishing an accuracy of 98.91%. Thus, the proposed model enables reliable decision-making by providing accurate, real-time information about wildlife.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".