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most citedOptimizing Image Capture for Computer Vision-Powered Taxonomic Identification and Trait Recognition of Biodiversity Specimens

7 citations · 10 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.CV2026

CounterFactual Retrieval for Evidence-Aware Individual Animal Identification

Ankit K. Upadhyay, Aleksandr Algasov, Ekaterina Nepovinnykh +5

Automated identification of individual animals is moving from small curated studies toward shared benchmarks and reusable foundation models. This progress is useful, but current ev…

q-bio.PE2026

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…

cs.CV2025

Unsupervised Pelage Pattern Unwrapping for Animal Re-identification

Aleksandr Algasov, Ekaterina Nepovinnykh, Fedor Zolotarev +4

Existing individual re-identification methods often struggle with the deformable nature of animal fur or skin patterns which undergo geometric distortions due to body movement and…

cs.CV2025★ 7 cited

Optimizing Image Capture for Computer Vision-Powered Taxonomic Identification and Trait Recognition of Biodiversity Specimens

Alyson East, Elizabeth G. Campolongo, Luke Meyers +25

1) Biological collections house millions of specimens with digital images increasingly available through open-access platforms. However, most imaging protocols were developed for h…

cs.CV2024

Understanding the Impact of Training Set Size on Animal Re-identification

Aleksandr Algasov, Ekaterina Nepovinnykh, Tuomas Eerola +4

Recent advancements in the automatic re-identification of animal individuals from images have opened up new possibilities for studying wildlife through camera traps and citizen sci…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Combining feature aggregation and geometric similarity for re-identification of patterned animals

Veikka Immonen, Ekaterina Nepovinnykh, Tuomas Eerola +2

Image-based re-identification of animal individuals allows gathering of information such as migration patterns of the animals over time. This, together with large image volumes col…

cs.CV2022★ 2 cited

NORPPA: NOvel Ringed seal re-identification by Pelage Pattern Aggregation

Ekaterina Nepovinnykh, Ilia Chelak, Tuomas Eerola +1

We propose a method for Saimaa ringed seal (Pusa hispida saimensis) re-identification. Access to large image volumes through camera trapping and crowdsourcing provides novel possib…

cs.CV2022

SealID: Saimaa ringed seal re-identification dataset

Ekaterina Nepovinnykh, Tuomas Eerola, Vincent Biard +4

Wildlife camera traps and crowd-sourced image material provide novel possibilities to monitor endangered animal species. However, massive image volumes that these methods produce a…

cs.CV2021

EDEN: Deep Feature Distribution Pooling for Saimaa Ringed Seals Pattern Matching

Ilia Chelak, Ekaterina Nepovinnykh, Tuomas Eerola +2

In this paper, pelage pattern matching is considered to solve the individual re-identification of the Saimaa ringed seals. Animal re-identification together with the access to larg…