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most citedCharacterizing and Modeling AI-Driven Animal Ecology Studies at the Edge

9 citations · 17 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.RO2026

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…

cs.RO2026

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…

cs.CY2026

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…

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.CV2026

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…

cs.LG2026

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…

eess.SY2025

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…

cs.CV2025

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…

cs.CV2025

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,…

eess.SY2024★ 9 cited

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…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Adapting the re-ID challenge for static sensors

Avirath Sundaresan, Jason R. Parham, Jonathan Crall +9

In both 2016 and 2018, a census of the highly-endangered Grevy's zebra population was enabled by the Great Grevy's Rally (GGR), a citizen science event that produces population est…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

Integrating Biological Data into Autonomous Remote Sensing Systems for In Situ Imageomics: A Case Study for Kenyan Animal Behavior Sensing with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

Jenna M. Kline, Maksim Kholiavchenko, Otto Brookes +3

In situ imageomics leverages machine learning techniques to infer biological traits from images collected in the field, or in situ, to study individuals organisms, groups of wildli…

cs.CV2024★ 6 cited

BaboonLand Dataset: Tracking Primates in the Wild and Automating Behaviour Recognition from Drone Videos

Isla Duporge, Maksim Kholiavchenko, Roi Harel +9

Using drones to track multiple individuals simultaneously in their natural environment is a powerful approach for better understanding group primate behavior. Previous studies have…