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Global biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate, yet little information is known about most species and how their populations are changing. Indeed, some 90% of Earth's species are estimated to be completely unknown. Machine…

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In ecological research, accurately collecting spatiotemporal position data is a fundamental task for understanding the behavior and ecology of insects and other organisms. In recent years, advancements in computer vision techniques have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Daisuke Mori , Hiroki Hayami , Yasufumi Fujimoto , Isao Goto

Insect-pests significantly impact global agricultural productivity and quality. Effective management involves identifying the full insect community, including beneficial insects and harmful pests, to develop and implement integrated pest…

The need for fine-grained perception in autonomous driving systems has resulted in recently increased research on online semantic segmentation of single-scan LiDAR. Despite the emerging datasets and technological advancements, it remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Yang Zhang , Zixiang Zhou , Philip David , Xiangyu Yue , Zerong Xi , Boqing Gong , Hassan Foroosh

Polarimetric observations of the twilight sky are effective for the investigations of scattering properties of the atmosphere at different altitudes. Modern computer technique allows to reduce the influence of multiple scattering on the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. V. Postylyakov , O. S. Ugolnikov , I. A. Maslov , A. N. Masleev

Lidar has become a cornerstone sensing modality for 3D vision, especially for large outdoor scenarios and autonomous driving. Conventional lidar sensors are capable of providing centimeter-accurate distance information by emitting laser…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Dominik Scheuble , Chenyang Lei , Seung-Hwan Baek , Mario Bijelic , Felix Heide

As part of an ongoing worldwide effort to comprehend and monitor insect biodiversity, this paper presents the BIOSCAN-5M Insect dataset to the machine learning community and establish several benchmark tasks. BIOSCAN-5M is a comprehensive…

Changes in bird populations can indicate broader changes in ecosystems, making birds one of the most important animal groups to monitor. Combining machine learning and passive acoustics enables continuous monitoring over extended periods…

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Polarized emission from aligned dust is a crucial tool for studies of magnetism in the ISM and a troublesome contaminant for studies of CMB polarization. In each case, an understanding of the significance of the polarization signal requires…

Collections of biological specimens are fundamental to scientific understanding and characterization of natural diversity. This paper presents a system for liberating useful information from physical collections by bringing specimens into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Chuong V. Nguyen , David R. Lovell , Matt Adcock , John La Salle

Automatic camera-assisted monitoring of insects for abundance estimations is crucial to understand and counteract ongoing insect decline. In this paper, we present two datasets of nocturnal insects, especially moths as a subset of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Dimitri Korsch , Paul Bodesheim , Gunnar Brehm , Joachim Denzler

The US weather radar archive holds detailed information about biological phenomena in the atmosphere over the last 20 years. Communally roosting birds congregate in large numbers at nighttime roosting locations, and their morning exodus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Zezhou Cheng , Saadia Gabriel , Pankaj Bhambhani , Daniel Sheldon , Subhransu Maji , Andrew Laughlin , David Winkler

Polarimetry in the far-infrared and submillimeter has been valuable in tracing magnetic fields in bright Galactic Clouds. We discuss the techniques we have developed and trends we have found in polarization vs column density, and vs…

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Traditional bird classifiers mostly rely on the visual characteristics of birds. Some prior works even train classifiers to be invariant to the background, completely discarding the living environment of birds. Instead, we are the first to…

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Bird strikes pose a significant threat to aviation safety, often resulting in loss of life, severe aircraft damage, and substantial financial costs. Existing bird strike prevention strategies primarily rely on avian radar systems that…

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In precision agriculture, the detection and recognition of insects play an essential role in the ability of crops to grow healthy and produce a high-quality yield. The current machine vision model requires a large volume of data to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Hoang-Quan Nguyen , Thanh-Dat Truong , Xuan Bac Nguyen , Ashley Dowling , Xin Li , Khoa Luu

It is widely known in the machine learning community that class noise can be (and often is) detrimental to inducing a model of the data. Many current approaches use a single, often biased, measurement to determine if an instance is noisy. A…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-03-11 Michael R. Smith , Tony Martinez

This paper presents Zwitscherkasten, a DiY, multimodal system for bird species monitoring using audio and visual data on edge devices. Deep learning models for bioacoustic and image-based classification are deployed on resource-constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Dominik Blum , Elias Häring , Fabian Jirges , Martin Schäffer , David Schick , Florian Schulenberg , Torsten Schön

Motion perception is a critical capability determining a variety of aspects of insects' life, including avoiding predators, foraging and so forth. A good number of motion detectors have been identified in the insects' visual pathways.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Qinbing Fu , Hongxin Wang , Cheng Hu , Shigang Yue

Insects are abundant species on the earth, and the task of identification and identification of insects is complex and arduous. How to apply artificial intelligence technology and digital image processing methods to automatic identification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Bohan Liang , Shangxi Wu , Kaiyuan Xu , Jingyu Hao