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most citedVLM4Bio: A Benchmark Dataset to Evaluate Pretrained Vision-Language Models for Trait Discovery from Biological Images

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10 papers

cs.CV2026

SeamCam: Quantifying Seamless Camouflage via Multi-Cue Visual Detectability

Amin Karimi Monsefi, Abolfazl Meyarian, Mridul Khurana +6

Animals are described as effectively camouflaged when they blend seamlessly with their surrounding, yet no standardized quantitative measure of this seamlessness exists. We address…

cs.CV2026

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…

cs.CV2026

A continental-scale dataset of ground beetles with high-resolution images and validated morphological trait measurements

S M Rayeed, Mridul Khurana, Alyson East +18

Despite the ecological significance of invertebrates, global trait databases remain heavily biased toward vertebrates and plants, limiting comprehensive ecological analyses of high…

cs.LG2025

PRISMA: Improving the Accuracy-Latency Frontier of Diffusion-based PDE Solvers Using Physics-Informed Spectral Attention

Medha Sawhney, Abhilash Neog, Mridul Khurana +1

Diffusion-based solvers for partial differential equations (PDEs) are often bottle-necked by slow gradient-based test-time optimization routines that use PDE residuals for loss gui…

cs.CV2025

TaxaDiffusion: Progressively Trained Diffusion Model for Fine-Grained Species Generation

Amin Karimi Monsefi, Mridul Khurana, Rajiv Ramnath +3

We propose TaxaDiffusion, a taxonomy-informed training framework for diffusion models to generate fine-grained animal images with high morphological and identity accuracy. Unlike s…

cs.CV2025

Open World Scene Graph Generation using Vision Language Models

Amartya Dutta, Kazi Sajeed Mehrab, Medha Sawhney +8

Scene-Graph Generation (SGG) seeks to recognize objects in an image and distill their salient pairwise relationships. Most methods depend on dataset-specific supervision to learn t…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

VLM4Bio: A Benchmark Dataset to Evaluate Pretrained Vision-Language Models for Trait Discovery from Biological Images

M. Maruf, Arka Daw, Kazi Sajeed Mehrab +19

Images are increasingly becoming the currency for documenting biodiversity on the planet, providing novel opportunities for accelerating scientific discoveries in the field of orga…

q-bio.PE2024

Hierarchical Conditioning of Diffusion Models Using Tree-of-Life for Studying Species Evolution

Mridul Khurana, Arka Daw, M. Maruf +12

A central problem in biology is to understand how organisms evolve and adapt to their environment by acquiring variations in the observable characteristics or traits of species acr…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Fish-Vista: A Multi-Purpose Dataset for Understanding & Identification of Traits from Images

Kazi Sajeed Mehrab, M. Maruf, Arka Daw +16

We introduce Fish-Visual Trait Analysis (Fish-Vista), the first organismal image dataset designed for the analysis of visual traits of aquatic species directly from images using pr…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Discovering Novel Biological Traits From Images Using Phylogeny-Guided Neural Networks

Mohannad Elhamod, Mridul Khurana, Harish Babu Manogaran +15

Discovering evolutionary traits that are heritable across species on the tree of life (also referred to as a phylogenetic tree) is of great interest to biologists to understand how…