arXiv Computer Vision By Yichun Peng, Yansong Li, Jin Hou, Qi Song, Xi Guo, Ning Zhang, Degang Wei, Huang Yang, Yu Guan, Jianping Ge, Lei Bao, Tianming Wang

OpenStripe supports open-set identification and spatial stripe profiling in wild Amur tigers

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arXiv AI
Jun 10

Democratising Camera Trap AI: An Open-Source Model for Detecting UK Mammals

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.

By Paul Fergus, Philip Stephens, Russell A. Hill, Lee Oliver, Katie Appleby, Sarah Beatham, Naomi Davies Walsh, Stuart Nixon, Naomi Matthews, Chris Sutherland, Kelly Hitchcock
arXiv AI
Sep 10

What Does Animal Re-Identification Learn? Linear Biological Concepts and Their Origins in Visual Representations

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.

By Robert Nolting, Alexandra Schild, Moritz Weckbecker, Maximilian Schall, Gerard de Melo
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 9

Democratising Camera Trap AI: An Open-Source Model for Detecting UK Mammals

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.

arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 12

Advancing Wildlife Conservation through Multimodal Animal Re-Identification with Environmental Metadata

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.

By Yuzhuo Li, Di Zhao, Tingrui Qiao, Yihao Wu, Bo Pang, Yun Sing Koh