18 papers
Benchmarking NACTI Species Recognition in Long-Tailed Regimes
Zehua Liu, Tilo Burghardt
As with most ``in the wild'' collections of the natural world, the North America Camera Trap Images (NACTI) dataset exhibits long-tailed class imbalance, with the largest class cov…
The PanAf-SBR Dataset: Social Behaviour Recognition for Wild Great Apes
Maciej Braszczok, Otto Brookes, Xiaoxuan Ma +6
Behavioural shifts in wild great ape populations, particularly the breakdown of social structures, can serve as an early indicator of population decline. Automating the detection o…
Automating Visual Recognition of Leprosy in Wild Chimpanzees
Katie I. Murray, Anna C. Bowland, Marina Ramon +9
Leprosy (Mycobacterium leprae) has been confirmed in wild western chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in West Africa, presenting as clear and progressive visual symptoms. Manual re…
CoralLite: μCT Reconstruction of Coral Colonies from Individual Corallites
Jess Jones, Leonardo Bertini, Kenneth Johnson +2
The life history of an individual coral is archived within the accreting skeleton of the colony. While reef-forming coral colonies (e.g. massive sp.) may live fo…
Centering Ecological Goals in Automated Identification of Individual Animals
Lukas Picek, Timm Haucke, Lukáš Adam +16
Recognizing individual animals over time is central to many ecological and conservation questions, including estimating abundance, survival, movement, and social structure. Recent…
Towards Application-Specific Evaluation of Vision Models: Case Studies in Ecology and Biology
Alex Hoi Hang Chan, Otto Brookes, Urs Waldmann +11
Computer vision methods have demonstrated considerable potential to streamline ecological and biological workflows, with a growing number of datasets and models becoming available…