arXiv:2604. 13240v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Mapping the spatial distribution of species is essential for conservation policy and invasive species management.
By Augustin de la Brosse, Damien Garreau, Thomas Houet, Thomas Corpetti
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. 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:2607. 26743v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence has shown considerable potential for archaeological applications, yet its use in zooarchaeology remains limited, particularly for the identification of avian skeletal remains.
By Nevio Dubbini, Lisa Yeomans, Marco Pavia, Ramazan Parmaksiz, Ayse Atas Hooglugt, Gabriele Gattiglia, Beatrice Demarchi
arXiv:2606. 26757v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Edible insects offer an efficient source of alternative protein, requiring less land, water and emitting less greenhouse gas than conventional livestock.
By Majharulislam Babor, Giacomo Rossi, Annalisa Altavilla, Oliver Schl\"uter, Marina M. -C. H\"ohne
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.
By Gia-Han Truong, Khang Nguyen Quoc, Luyl-Da Quach
arXiv:2605. 05627v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Sustainable forest management relies on precise species composition mapping, yet traditional ground surveys are labour-intensive and geographically constrained.
By Gabriel Jeanson, David-Alexandre Duclos, William Larriv\'ee-Hardy, No\'e Cochet, Mat\v{e}j Boxan, Anthony Desch\^enes, Fran\c{c}ois Pomerleau, Philippe Gigu\`ere
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
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:2606. 05139v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid advancement of high-throughput sequencing has led to large, high-dimensional omics datasets.
By Luca Thale-Bombien, Jan Ewald, Ralf K\"onig, Aaron Klein
arXiv:2603. 13377v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Representation learning has driven major advances in natural image analysis by enabling models to acquire high-level semantic features.
By Ivan Svatko, Maxime Sanchez, Ihab Bendidi, Gilles Cottrell, Auguste Genovesio
arXiv:2510. 09458v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Interest in forestry automation is growing alongside rapid advances in deep learning.
By David-Alexandre Duclos, William Guimont-Martin, Gabriel Jeanson, Arthur Larochelle-Tremblay, Martine Lapointe, Th\'eo Defosse, Fr\'ed\'eric Moore, Philippe Nolet, Fran\c{c}ois Pomerleau, Philippe Gigu\`ere