FieldGuideRAG is a training‑free GraphRAG approach that uses a frozen vision‑language model to recognize fine‑grained species by comparing a query image to photographs stored on each species node in a knowledge graph. The graph links species to relatives, geographic range, and ecological facts, and the system fuses verification scores with range edges to answer organism‑related questions. On datasets such as CUB‑200 and iNaturalist, FieldGuideRAG’s use of node photographs improves verification over species names, surpasses a SigLIP retriever by up to 16 points, and achieves up to 89.5% accuracy on ecological questions.
arXiv:2609. 11916v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Camera traps often run in the field on edge hardware with limited or no connectivity, making small, locally-deployable vision-language models (VLMs) -- not frontier-scale ones -- the practically relevant class to evaluate for species identification.
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.
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:2605.10120v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) show remarkable potential for scientific reasoning, yet their performance in specialized domains suc...
arXiv:2508. 17117v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Existing plant-disease datasets target classification and detection, leaving vision-language models unable to support interactive, reasoning-based diagnosis.
arXiv:2608. 08727v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: To address this gap, we introduce TomaMMU, a large-scale Tomato leaf disease MultiModal Understanding dataset, alongside TomaBench, a benchmark for evaluating VLMs on tomato disease understanding.
arXiv:2607. 03245v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-throughput plant phenotyping generates valuable data that often remains trapped in unstructured text and isolated RGB images.
arXiv:2608. 04452v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-resolution pixels and crop or zoom tools give multimodal large language models the ability to inspect an image, but they do not provide a reliable task-conditioned policy for deciding where to inspect.
The paper introduces MetaWild, a multimodal animal re-identification dataset that pairs 20,890 images from six species with environmental metadata such as temperature and circadian rhythms. It also proposes the Meta-Feature Adapter (MFA), a lightweight module that integrates this metadata into vision-language models for re-identification tasks. Experiments demonstrate that adding MFA consistently improves re-identification performance over visual-only baselines.
To address this gap, we introduce TomaMMU, a large-scale Tomato leaf disease MultiModal Understanding dataset, alongside TomaBench, a benchmark for evaluating VLMs on tomato disease understanding. TomaMMU comprises 28,808 high-quality images spanning 15 categories and 213,119 human-annotated visual question-answer pairs, generated through a three-stage pipeline comprising Data Collection, Human Annotation, and Question-Answer Generation.
arXiv:2607. 09876v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automatically retrieving videos from large camera-trap datasets remains challenging.
arXiv:2609.09417v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) show promise for agricultural classification, but zero-shot performance on disease, pest, damage, quality, and species id...