arXiv:2609.15427v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Using food package images to monitor sodium and salt content against South Africa's R214 sodium limits is challenging when screening decisions requir...
arXiv:2607. 19262v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As pathogen genomic surveillance scales, the bottleneck is shifting from data generation to analysis.
Bio‑VQA is a new, large-scale visual question answering benchmark for biology, comprising 1.86 million questions over 217 k images from 11 datasets. It tests four key aspects of biological visual understanding—taxonomic reasoning, attribute grounding, spatial reasoning, and individual re‑identification—using a graded scoring system that rewards near‑misses more than distant ones. Evaluation of 18 open‑weight vision‑language models shows that general visual capabilities do not transfer well to biological tasks, with markedly lower accuracy on counting, taxonomy, trait measurement, and re‑identification compared to everyday object benchmarks.
arXiv:2609.25040v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Banana crop diseases threaten food security across the world, yet field diagnosis remains difficult because of limited expert access and visual simil...
arXiv:2607. 16324v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Malaria diagnosis in endemic regions depends on species-level identification of Plasmodium parasites in thick blood smears, but deep learning detectors classify detections without providing morphological evidence for their predictions, limiting the ability of microscopists to audit those predictions at the case level.
arXiv:2608. 06486v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In a feature-tokenized transformer (arXiv:2106.
arXiv:2609.35089v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Meta-analysis is the synthesis of information from multiple sources to arrive at an overarching conclusion. There is a large need for meta-analysis...
arXiv:2610.09726v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Estimating remaining shelf life (RSL) from images could provide affordable decision support for perishable produce, but evaluation protocols can substa...
arXiv:2608. 08566v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Malaria remains a leading cause of mortality in resource-limited settings, where expert microscopists are scarce.
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:2606. 02080v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Biological image analysis increasingly demands integration across heterogeneous tools, programming environments, and domain knowledge that few researchers can command simultaneously.
arXiv:2610.28211v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Applying South Africa's draft R3337 warning criteria to food-package photographs requires nutrition, ingredient and product-form evidence. This study...