Cross-Species Animal Re-Identification with Semantic Consistency Learning
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arXiv:2610.07384v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Individual animal re-identification from camera-trap imagery is an instance retrieval problem central to non-invasive wildlife monitoring: a query im...
arXiv:2607. 09443v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-term animal re-identification (ReID) must remain robust to gradual morphological evolution and seasonal appearance shifts.
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...
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.
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...
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.