8 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…
Cross-Modal Corroboration for Annotation-Free Wildlife Monitoring
Bharath Pillai, Varun Viswapriyan, Christopher Stewart +2
Scaling wildlife monitoring for real-world conservation deployments requires automated analysis of smart sensors that operate under severe annotation scarcity. We propose leveragin…
WildBox: A Dataset and Benchmark for Aerial Monocular 3D Detection of African Savanna Wildlife
Vandita Shukla, Kilian Meier, Lucie Laporte-Devylder +6
We introduce WildBox, a dataset and benchmark for monocular 3D detection of wildlife from drone video, comprising 237,505 3D bounding box annotations across seven African savanna s…
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…
Edge-Native, Behavior-Adaptive Drone System for Wildlife Monitoring
Jenna Kline, Rugved Katole, Tanya Berger-Wolf +1
Wildlife monitoring with drones must balance competing demands: approaching close enough to capture behaviorally-relevant video while avoiding stress responses that compromise anim…
SmartWilds: Multimodal Wildlife Monitoring Dataset
Jenna Kline, Anirudh Potlapally, Bharath Pillai +7
We present the first release of SmartWilds, a multimodal wildlife monitoring dataset. SmartWilds is a synchronized collection of drone imagery, camera trap photographs and videos,…