11 papers
Autonomous UAV Navigation for Individual Wildlife Re-Identification
Claire Sun, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Jenna Kline
Reliable individual re-identification (re-ID) of wildlife is essential for population monitoring, behavioral tracking, and conservation policy evaluation, yet large-scale data coll…
FAIR^2 Drones: An AI-Ready Standard for Cross-Domain Wildlife Drone Datasets
Jenna Kline, Kilian Meier, Vandita Shukla +14
Animal ecology data collection using drones represents a substantial investment of time, expertise, and financial resources. Yet most existing datasets serve only a single research…
Grand Challenges for the Convergence of Computational and Citizen Science Research Workshop Report
Lucy Fortson, Lea Shanley, Tanya Berger-Wolf +4
This report is an outcome of a Computing Community Consortium (CCC) visioning workshop on Grand Challenges for the Convergence of Computational and Citizen Science Research conduct…
DynaSTy: A Framework for SpatioTemporal Node Attribute Prediction in Dynamic Graphs
Namrata Banerji, Tanya Berger-Wolf
Accurate multistep forecasting of node-level attributes on dynamic graphs is critical for applications ranging from financial trust networks to biological networks. Existing spatio…
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…
Tracking Phenological Status and Ecological Interactions in a Hawaiian Cloud Forest Understory using Low-Cost Camera Traps and Visual Foundation Models
Luke Meyers, Anirudh Potlapally, Yuyan Chen +5
Plant phenology, the study of cyclical events such as leafing out, flowering, or fruiting, has wide ecological impacts but is broadly understudied, especially in the tropics. Image…