  Remote individual animal identification is important for food safety, sport,
and animal conservation. Numerous existing remote individual animal
identification studies have focused on RGB images. In this paper, we tackle
individual penguin identification using hyperspectral (HS) images. To the best
of our knowledge, it is the first work to analyze spectral differences between
penguin individuals using an HS camera. We have constructed a novel penguin HS
image dataset, including 990 hyperspectral images of 27 penguins. We
experimentally demonstrate that the spectral information of HS image pixels can
be used for individual penguin identification. The experimental results show
the effectiveness of using HS images for individual penguin identification. The
dataset and source code are available here:
https://033labcodes.github.io/igrass24_penguin/
