5 papers
Sustainable Intelligence for the Wild: Democratizing Ecological Monitoring via Knowledge-Adaptive Edge Expert Agents
Jiaxing Li, Hao Fang, Chi Xu +5
Rapid biodiversity loss underscore the urgency of effective monitoring, yet manual surveys remain resource-intensive. While on-device AI offers a scalable alternative, its performa…
Self-Supervised Compression and Artifact Correction for Streaming Underwater Imaging Sonar
Rongsheng Qian, Chi Xu, Xiaoqiang Ma +4
Real-time imaging sonar is crucial for underwater monitoring where optical sensing fails, but its use is limited by low uplink bandwidth and severe sonar-specific artifacts (speckl…
Exploring Multimodal Foundation AI and Expert-in-the-Loop for Sustainable Management of Wild Salmon Fisheries in Indigenous Rivers
Chi Xu, Yili Jin, Sami Ma +8
Wild salmon are essential to the ecological, economic, and cultural sustainability of the North Pacific Rim. Yet climate variability, habitat loss, and data limitations in remote e…
SALINA: Towards Sustainable Live Sonar Analytics in Wild Ecosystems
Chi Xu, Rongsheng Qian, Hao Fang +4
Sonar radar captures visual representations of underwater objects and structures using sound wave reflections, making it essential for exploration, mapping, and continuous surveill…
LEO Satellite Network Access in the Wild: Potentials, Experiences, and Challenges
Sami Ma, Yi Ching Chou, Miao Zhang +4
In the past three years, working with the Pacific Salmon Foundation and various First Nations groups, we have established Starlink-empowered wild salmon monitoring sites in remote…