arXiv:2603.04163v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Wildlife re-identification aims to recognise individual animals by matching query images to a database of previously identified individuals, based...
arXiv:2512.07776v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Monitoring critically endangered western lowland gorillas is currently hampered by the immense manual effort required to re-identify individuals fr...
arXiv:2609.09705v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalizable animal Re-Identification (ReID) aims to recognize individual animals across species with diverse morphologies and ecological contexts. Un...
Animal pose estimation and tracking is important for wildlife monitoring and conservation research, and with limited expert time for labelling automated approaches are imperative. While human pose estimation and tracking has seen rapid progress thanks to large annotated datasets, animal pose remain challenging, due to large morphological and behavioural differences between species and limited annotated data.
arXiv:2609.36560v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Object re-identification (ReID) faces a recurring challenge: different identities can share highly similar global appearances, while the cues that di...
Object re-identification (ReID) faces a recurring challenge: different identities can share highly similar global appearances, while the cues that distinguish them are localized, heterogeneous, and vi...
arXiv:2606. 09353v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Individual animal recognition can be useful in the search for lost or stolen pets, the tracking of individuals of endangered species, and the recognition of animals in crowded farms.
arXiv:2607. 17157v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-object tracking (MOT) aims to localize multiple objects in videos while preserving their identities over time.
arXiv:2607. 09443v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-term animal re-identification (ReID) must remain robust to gradual morphological evolution and seasonal appearance shifts.
VastMAT is a large‑scale multi‑animal tracking benchmark featuring 2,947 videos, 337 animal categories, and over 3.6 million bounding boxes with 22,883 identity trajectories. It emphasizes high‑quality, expert‑reviewed annotations and introduces Seen‑category and Unseen‑category evaluation protocols, revealing significant challenges in tracking unseen animals. The authors also propose a lightweight Center‑Distance‑Augmented Association module that boosts HOTA scores for existing MOT methods without extra training.
PuTR-CouT is a transformer‑based counting‑by‑tracking framework designed for camera‑trap image sequences. It generates synthetic training data using structural priors to create pseudo‑tracking labels, enabling the tracker to associate detections across frames and estimate per‑species counts. The method improves upon the MaxBoxCount baseline on the iWildCam 2021 benchmark, offering competitive counting results along with multi‑species predictions and track‑level verification.
The study investigates whether Vision Transformer (ViT)-based animal re-identification models learn biologically meaningful concepts. Using a DINOv3 backbone fine‑tuned on Western lowland gorilla images, the authors find that sex and age emerge as linear directions in the model’s representations, generalizing to unseen individuals with high AUROC scores. They demonstrate that the sex direction is causally used by the model, that fine‑tuning relocates these concepts within the network, and that the representations reflect a graded biological axis encoded redundantly across the population.