arXiv:2606. 25989v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated classification of marine species from underwater imagery is essential for scalable ocean biodiversity monitoring and conservation policy.
arXiv:2606. 00080v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Marine plankton underpin aquatic food webs and play a key role in global CO2 sequestration, making reliable species identification critical for understanding ocean health and climate feedbacks.
The paper presents a method for generating synthetic plankton images conditioned on taxonomic labels to address the long‑tailed nature of automated plankton imaging datasets. A CLIP encoder is fine‑tuned on a large plankton corpus using a ranked contrastive objective that accommodates deep, ragged taxonomies, and then frozen to guide a parameter‑efficient diffusion transformer. The quality of the synthetic samples is evaluated both for distributional fidelity and for their usefulness in training downstream classifiers.
arXiv:2604. 13240v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Mapping the spatial distribution of species is essential for conservation policy and invasive species management.
arXiv:2608.24594v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Submerged kelp forests are vital coastal ecosystems that support marine biodiversity and ecosystem dynamics, yet accurate underwater kelp segmentation...
arXiv:2607. 02909v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Taxonomies provide key information about the semantic relationships between concepts and the inherent organization of vision and language.
The paper introduces SAGE, a Sampling‑Aware Global Evaluation benchmark for species distribution modeling that uses GBIF records for training and sPlotOpen vegetation plots for presence‑absence evaluation across 5,771 plant species. It groups species by sampling effort and relative prevalence to assess how well single‑species and multi‑species deep‑learning SDMs perform under different data conditions. The study finds that Random Forests and DeepSDMs perform best overall, with DeepSDMs excelling for infrequently recorded species only when bias‑correction techniques are applied.
The study benchmarks Vision Transformers (ViTs) against convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for fine‑grained orchid genus identification in New Guinea’s species‑rich, data‑poor flora. Using a two‑stage system that first predicts genus and then retrieves similar species images, the authors fine‑tuned four pretrained backbones on 16,701 photographs from 120 genera and 1,350 species. The self‑supervised ViT DINOv2 achieved the highest genus accuracy (macro top‑1 66.9 %) and outperformed both CNNs and a domain‑matched pretrained ViT, demonstrating strong species retrieval and open‑set detection capabilities.
arXiv:2609.23397v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Shrimp diseases continue to cause devastating losses in the aquaculture industry, driving a critical need for robust, automated detection. This work co...
The paper introduces a method for estimating uncertainty in hierarchical taxonomic reasoning produced by black‑box large language models (LLMs). By extracting proxy features with an open‑source tool and training lightweight supervised estimators that incorporate hierarchy‑aware supervision, the authors predict rank‑wise correctness. Across three LLMs, these estimators outperform token‑likelihood baselines, raising micro AUROC from 0.57 to 0.75–0.80, with a rank‑specific multi‑head design delivering the best results.
arXiv:2608.30789v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Supervised deep learning methods enable the rapid processing of ecological image data, but depend on a costly annotation process. Consequently, trainin...
arXiv:2112. 02353v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Hierarchical classification aims to sort the object into a hierarchical structure of categories.
The paper introduces Semantics-Aware Hierarchical Consensus (SAHC), a deep learning framework that incorporates hierarchical-level-specific classification heads and cross-level probability projectors to leverage predefined label hierarchies in remote sensing image classification. SAHC fuses direct and projected predictions into a geometric consensus distribution, enabling self-consistent training and optional hierarchy-aware inference. Experiments on two benchmark datasets demonstrate the method’s effectiveness in guiding network learning and its robustness across varying spectral and spatial resolutions.