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Can't Find Waldo: Evaluating VLMs' Sensitivity to Image Resolution and Detail Level
Alexandra Schild, Gerard de Melo
Visual Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable success across diverse tasks, yet they struggle with high-resolution inputs where critical information resides in small regio…
What Does Animal Re-Identification Learn? Linear Biological Concepts and Their Origins in Visual Representations
Robert Nolting, Alexandra Schild, Moritz Weckbecker +2
Conservation increasingly relies on camera traps that collect more wildlife imagery than experts can manually analyze, making animal re-identification (Re-ID) essential for monitor…
Are We Recognizing the Jaguar or Its Background? A Diagnostic Framework for Jaguar Re-Identification
Antonio Rueda-Toicen, Abigail Allen Martin, Daniil Morozov +5
Jaguar re-identification (re-ID) from citizen-science imagery can look strong on standard retrieval metrics while still relying on the wrong evidence, such as background context or…
GorillaWatch: An Automated System for In-the-Wild Gorilla Re-Identification and Population Monitoring
Maximilian Schall, Felix Leonard Knöfel, Noah Elias König +11
Monitoring critically endangered western lowland gorillas is currently hampered by the immense manual effort required to re-identify individuals from vast archives of camera trap f…