[HTML][HTML] Beyond observation: Deep learning for animal behavior and ecological conservation

LS Saoud, A Sultan, M Elmezain, M Heshmat… - Ecological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Recent advancements in deep learning have profoundly impacted the field of animal
behavioral research, offering researchers powerful tools for understanding the complexities …

PetFace: A large-scale dataset and benchmark for animal identification

R Shinoda, K Shiohara - European Conference on Computer Vision, 2024 - Springer
Automated animal face identification plays a crucial role in the monitoring of behaviors,
conducting of surveys, and finding of lost animals. Despite the advancements in human face …

Harnessing artificial intelligence to fill global shortfalls in biodiversity knowledge

LJ Pollock, J Kitzes, S Beery, KM Gaynor… - Nature Reviews …, 2025 - nature.com
Large, well described gaps exist in both what we know and what we need to know to
address the biodiversity crisis. Artificial intelligence (AI) offers new potential for filling these …

WildFusion: Individual animal identification with calibrated similarity fusion

V Cermak, L Picek, L Adam, L Neumann… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We propose a new method-WildFusion-for individual identification of a broad range of
animal species. The method fuses deep scores (eg, MegaDescriptor or DINOv2) and local …

Do the best of all together: Hierarchical spatial-frequency fusion transformers for animal re-identification

W Zheng, FY Wang - Information Fusion, 2025 - Elsevier
Animal re-identification is fundamental in the ecology and ethology community for
understanding the Earth's ecosystems. Due to the uncertainty of photographing animals in …

[HTML][HTML] Deep learning for Amur tiger re-identification in camera traps: A tool assisting population monitoring and spatio-temporal analysis

Y Ma, M Tan, X Liu, Y Zhang, Z Xu, W Sun, J Ge… - Ecological …, 2025 - Elsevier
Reliable and accurate individual data is crucial for the conservation and recovery of
endangered Amur tigers. With the growing volume of data accumulated from camera traps in …

[HTML][HTML] Towards Automated Chicken Monitoring: Dataset and Machine Learning Methods for Visual, Noninvasive Reidentification

D Kern, T Schiele, U Klauck, W Ingabire - Animals, 2024 - mdpi.com
The chicken is the world's most farmed animal. In this work, we introduce the Chicks4FreeID
dataset, the first publicly available dataset focused on the reidentification of individual …

Animal Identification with Independent Foreground and Background Modeling

L Picek, L Neumann, J Matas - arxiv preprint arxiv:2408.12930, 2024 - arxiv.org
We propose a method that robustly exploits background and foreground in visual
identification of individual animals. Experiments show that their automatic separation, made …

Human-in-the-Loop Visual Re-ID for Population Size Estimation

G Perez, D Sheldon, G Van Horn, S Maji - European Conference on …, 2024 - Springer
Computer vision-based re-identification (Re-ID) systems are increasingly being deployed for
estimating population size in large image collections. However, the estimated size can be …

Exploiting facial side similarities to improve AI-driven sea turtle photo-identification systems

L Adam, K Papafitsoros, C Jean, ALF Rees - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Animal Photo-identification (photo-ID) denotes the process of identifying individual animals
based on their unique and stable morphological characteristics. It has been proven to be a …