Transfer Learning for Wildlife Classification: Evaluating YOLOv8 against DenseNet, ResNet, and VGGNet on a Custom Dataset

Subek Sharma, Sisir Dhakal, Mansi Bhavsar

This study evaluates the performance of various deep learning models, specifically DenseNet, ResNet, VGGNet, and YOLOv8, for wildlife species classification on a custom dataset. Th…