4 papers
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…
kabr-tools: Automated Framework for Multi-Species Behavioral Monitoring
Jenna Kline, Maksim Kholiavchenko, Samuel Stevens +13
A comprehensive understanding of animal behavior ecology depends on scalable approaches to quantify and interpret complex, multidimensional behavioral patterns. Traditional field o…
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,…
Characterizing and Modeling AI-Driven Animal Ecology Studies at the Edge
Jenna Kline, Austin O'Quinn, Tanya Berger-Wolf +1
Platforms that run artificial intelligence (AI) pipelines on edge computing resources are transforming the fields of animal ecology and biodiversity, enabling novel wildlife studie…