15 papers
Autonomous Scientific Discovery via Iterative Meta-Reflection
Bingchen Zhao, Sara Beery, Oisin Mac Aodha
Autonomous scientific discovery systems offer the potential to accelerate research by automating the process of hypothesis generation and validation. However, current systems opera…
Finding Needles in the Haystack: Transductive Active Labeling in Ecology
Rupa Kurinchi-Vendhan, Sara Beery
Active learning is now standard practice in labeling ecological data, enabling ecologists to quickly process large volumes of field data to understand and monitor natural environme…
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…
ReefNet: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for Fine-Grained Coral Reef Recognition
Abdulwahab Felemban, Yahia Battach, Faizan Farooq Khan +10
Coral reefs are rapidly declining under anthropogenic pressures (e.g., climate change), creating an urgent need for scalable and automated monitoring. Progress in data-driven coral…
ID-Sim: An Identity-Focused Similarity Metric
Julia Chae, Nicholas Kolkin, Jui-Hsien Wang +3
Humans have remarkable selective sensitivity to identities -- easily distinguishing between highly similar identities, even across significantly different contexts such as diverse…
TaxaAdapter: Vision Taxonomy Models are Key to Fine-grained Image Generation over the Tree of Life
Mridul Khurana, Amin Karimi Monsefi, Justin Lee +9
Accurately generating images across the Tree of Life is difficult: there are over 10M distinct species on Earth, many of which differ only by subtle visual traits. Despite the rema…