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.
By Dan Zimmerman, Dimitris A. Pados, George Sklivanitis
arXiv:2608. 17561v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The health of marine ecosystems is a critical indicator of global environmental change, yet the physical constraints of underwater observation and the intrinsic challenges of processing marine imagery severely limit the scalability of systematic monitoring.
By Cesar Borja, Breck A. McCollum, Jarret E. Byrnes, Kenneth Sebens, Ana C. Murillo
arXiv:2607. 24064v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable success in visual understanding, driven by the growing availability of high-quality image-text pairs.
By Tuan-An To, Yuk-Kwan Wong, Tuan-Anh Vu, Ziqiang Zheng, Sai-Kit Yeung
arXiv:2608. 12230v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Non-destructive food quality assessment has increasingly benefited from hyperspectral imaging (HSI), which captures spectral signatures linked to biochemical changes during storage.
By Kazi Nabiul Alam, Pooneh Bagheri Zadeh, Akbar Sheikh-Akbari
arXiv:2512. 15748v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Visual Species Recognition (VSR) is a fundamental task in scientific disciplines that require species-level identification, including ecology, palynology, evolutionary biology, systematics, and phylogenetics.
By Tian Liu, Anwesha Basu, James Caverlee, Shu Kong
arXiv:2509. 04682v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deploying reliable bioacoustic monitoring systems requires models that generalize under high-noise, low-SNR conditions and evaluation protocols that expose deployment-relevant failure modes, gaps largely unaddressed in current UPAM practice.
By Nicholas R. Rasmussen, Rodrigue Rizk, Longwei Wang, KC Santosh
arXiv:2601. 17039v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Mangroves are critical for climate-change mitigation, requiring reliable monitoring for effective conservation.
By Junhyuk Heo, Beomkyu Choi, Hyunjin Shin, Darongsae Kwon
arXiv:2608. 03023v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Remote sensing semantic segmentation is hindered by costly pixel-level annotations, motivating training-free open-vocabulary methods.
By Changhao Zhao, Haoxiang Li, Yuke Li, Hai Liu, LingLin Zeng
arXiv:2606. 27667v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence is transforming biodiversity monitoring by enabling automated analysis of ecological imagery collected from camera traps, drones, satellites, underwater platforms, and other sensing systems.
By Brinnae Bent, Holly R. Houliston, Jiayi Zhou, G\"unel Aghakishiyeva, David W. Johnston
arXiv:2606. 14562v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sociable weaver nests function as complex ecological structures offering thermoregulatory microhabitats and sustaining diverse species; however, datasets used in prior studies lack fine-grained 3D structural detail.
By Constanza A. Molina Catricheo, Simon Boeder, Ting-Jia Guo, Giacomo May, Cl\'ement Berthelot, Devis Tuia, Friedrich Fedor Reinhard, Fabio Remondino, Benjamin Risse
arXiv:2606. 05107v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose a label-free approach to adapt powerful but generic vision foundation models to specialized scientific domains.
By Elouan Gard\`es, Seung Eun Yi, Kartik Ahuja, Th\'eo Moutakanni, Huy V. Vo, Piotr Bojanowski, Wolfgang M. Pernice, Lo\"ic Landrieu, Camille Couprie
Bioacoustic foundation models rely on large-scale citizen science platforms like Xeno-Canto for geographically and ecologically diverse data. Recent work has shown that supervision alone can produce SotA species detection models when trained on this large-scale data -- however, there remains unutilized potential in the form of recording metadata readily available within these community-driven data hubs.