5 papers
Det-LIME: Detector-Aware, Multi-Instance Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations for Automated Marine Mammal Detection
Jiayi Zhou, David W. Johnston, Brinnae Bent
Despite the rapid uptake of black-box object detectors in marine mammal research and monitoring, explainability techniques are rarely integrated into conservation workflows. Furthe…
Aïra: Rethinking AI Research Assistants for Interdisciplinary Science
Diya Mirji, Tiffany Degbotse, Sharmil Nanjappa +9
Scientific discovery increasingly depends on interdisciplinary teams whose members contribute distinct expertise, conceptual frameworks, vocabularies, assumptions, and standards of…
Explainable AI for Biodiversity Monitoring and Ecological Image Analysis
Brinnae Bent, Holly R. Houliston, Jiayi Zhou +2
Artificial intelligence is transforming biodiversity monitoring by enabling automated analysis of ecological imagery collected from camera traps, drones, satellites, underwater pla…
On Thin Ice: Towards Explainable Conservation Monitoring via Attribution and Perturbations
Jiayi Zhou, Günel Aghakishiyeva, Saagar Arya +7
Computer vision can accelerate ecological research and conservation monitoring, yet adoption in ecology lags in part because of a lack of trust in black-box neural-network-based mo…
Photorealistic Inpainting for Perturbation-based Explanations in Ecological Monitoring
Günel Aghakishiyeva, Jiayi Zhou, Saagar Arya +7
Ecological monitoring is increasingly automated by vision models, yet opaque predictions limit trust and field adoption. We present an inpainting-guided, perturbation-based explana…