As the population grows and more land is being used for urbanization, ecosystems are disrupted
by our roads and cars. This expansion of infrastructure cuts through wildlife territories, leading
to many instances of Wildlife-Vehicle Collision (WVC). These instances of WVC are a global
issue that is having a global socio-economic impact, resulting in billions of dollars in property
damage and, at times, fatalities for vehicle occupants. In Saudi Arabia, this issue is similar, with
instances of Camel-Vehicle Collision (CVC) being particularly deadly due to the large size of
camels, which results in a 25% fatality rate [4]. The focus of this work is to test different object
detection models on the task of detecting camels on the road. The Deep Learning (DL) object
detection models used in the experiments are: CenterNet, EfficientDet, Faster R-CNN, and SSD.
Results of the experiments show that CenterNet performed the best in terms of accuracy and was
the most efficient in training. In the future, the plan is to expand on this work by developing a system to make countryside roads safer.