arXiv:2606. 24986v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated cattle posture-classification systems frequently report near-perfect accuracy, yet their robustness under realistic deployment conditions remains largely unknown.
arXiv:2606. 10940v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Camera traps have become a cornerstone of biodiversity monitoring, but the artificial intelligence that turns vast quantities of images into usable ecological data is often locked behind commercial platforms or trained on fauna that does not match that of the British Isles.
Camera traps have become a cornerstone of biodiversity monitoring, but the artificial intelligence that turns vast quantities of images into usable ecological data is often locked behind commercial platforms or trained on fauna that does not match that of the British Isles. In an attempt to remove barriers and increase uptake, we release an open-source object detection model for 31 classes, 28 common UK mammal and bird species, plus utility classes for humans, calibration poles, and vehicles, drawn from a curated dataset of 48,165 labelled instances assembled from multiple sites over a decade of operational deployment through Conservation AI and its successor, Trap Tracker.
BMCTrack-d is a novel tracking-by-detection method that uses unique back marks on pigs to achieve robust re-identification and tracking in challenging side-view camera settings. The approach employs a neural network-based back mark classifier followed by temporal consistency checks and deduplication to improve identity reliability over time. On a demanding test set, BMCTrack-d outperforms strong baselines, achieving higher-order tracking accuracy gains of 9.11% and 1.03%.
arXiv:2606.20223v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Camera-trap monitoring in African tropical forests increasingly extends beyond closed-canopy interiors to riverbanks, clearings, and park edges. Am...
BMCTrack-d is a novel tracking‑by‑detection system that uses unique back marks on pigs to enable reliable re‑identification and tracking in challenging side‑view camera settings. The approach combines a neural network back‑mark classifier with two post‑processing stages—temporal prediction consistency checks and deduplication—to improve identity reliability over time. On a demanding test set, BMCTrack‑d outperforms strong baselines (BoT‑SORT‑ReID and TrackTrack‑ReID) by 9.11% and 1.03% in higher‑order tracking accuracy, demonstrating the effectiveness of back‑mark‑based re‑identification for individual‑level pig monitoring.
arXiv:2608.28663v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable individual cattle identification supports disease surveillance, vaccination records, breeding management, and livestock insurance. Although th...
arXiv:2608. 09943v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Monitoring livestock behaviour under extensive conditions would provide valuable insights to assess animal adaption to environmental perturbations in agroecological systems (e.
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.
arXiv:2608. 06001v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Commercial grazing systems yield irregular livestock observations, which challenge cattle growth forecasting.
arXiv:2606. 15655v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The need for effective cattle identification technology is now more acutely felt than ever in maintaining biosecurity, food safety, and supply chain efficacy in livestock management.
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: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.