Technologies to identify individual animals, follow their movements, identify and locate
animal and plant species, and assess the status of their habitats remotely have become …

Within conservation and ecology, volunteer participation has always been an important
component of research. Within the past two decades, this use of volunteers in research has …

In this paper, we present WildlifeDatasets-an open-source toolkit intended primarily for
ecologists and computer-vision/machine-learning researchers. The WildlifeDatasets is …

Photo identification (PID) in animal studies has been a widely used method for identifying
individuals of many species based on unique natural markings and patterns. The use of PID …

Most mammals have whiskers; however, nearly everything we know about whiskers derives
from just a handful of species, including laboratory rats Rattus norvegicus and mice Mus …

Inherent difficulties in determining the sex of free-ranging, sexually monomorphic species
often prevents a sex-specific focus on estimating abundance, movement patterns and …

Photo-identification is a commonly used non-invasive technique that has been profitably
employed in biological studies throughout the years. It starts from the assumption that a …

Abstract In the Baltic Sea there is a severe conflict between small-scale fisheries and gray
seals. One fishery severely affected by seal predation is the salmon trap fishery. Underwater …

Over the last two decades, camera traps have revolutionised the ability of biologists to
undertake faunal surveys and estimate population densities, although identifying individuals …

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 …