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The development and application of modern technology is an essential basis for the efficient monitoring of species in natural habitats and landscapes to trace the development of ecosystems, species communities, and populations, and to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Timm Haucke , Hjalmar S. Kühl , Volker Steinhage

Wildlife object detection plays a vital role in biodiversity conservation, ecological monitoring, and habitat protection. However, this task is often challenged by environmental variability, visual similarities among species, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Malach Obisa Amonga , Benard Osero , Edna Too

Camera traps, unmanned observation devices, and deep learning-based image recognition systems have greatly reduced human effort in collecting and analyzing wildlife images. However, data collected via above apparatus exhibits 1) long-tailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Jeongsoo Kim , Sangmin Woo , Byeongjun Park , Changick Kim

People detection methods are highly sensitive to the perpetual occlusions among the targets. As multi-camera set-ups become more frequently encountered, joint exploitation of the across views information would allow for improved detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Tatjana Chavdarova , Pierre Baqué , Stéphane Bouquet , Andrii Maksai , Cijo Jose , Louis Lettry , Pascal Fua , Luc Van Gool , François Fleuret

Recently, the use of smart cameras in outdoor settings has grown to improve surveillance and security. Nonetheless, these systems are susceptible to tampering, whether from deliberate vandalism or harsh environmental conditions, which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Shadi Attarha , Kanaga Shanmugi , Anna Förster

Detecting flying animals (e.g., birds, bats, and insects) using weather radar helps gain insights into animal movement and migration patterns, aids in management efforts (such as biosecurity) and enhances our understanding of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Mubin Ul Haque , Joel Janek Dabrowski , Rebecca M. Rogers , Hazel Parry

Camera traps are used worldwide to monitor wildlife. Despite the increasing availability of Deep Learning (DL) models, the effective usage of this technology to support wildlife monitoring is limited. This is mainly due to the complexity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Mateusz Choinski , Mateusz Rogowski , Piotr Tynecki , Dries P. J. Kuijper , Marcin Churski , Jakub W. Bubnicki

Activity recognition and, more generally, behavior inference tasks are gaining a lot of interest. Much of it is work in the context of human behavior. New available tracking technologies for wild animals are generating datasets that…

Camera traps are vital for large-scale biodiversity monitoring, yet accurate automated analysis remains challenging due to diverse deployment environments. While the computer vision community has mostly framed this challenge as cross-domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Sooyoung Jeon , Hongjie Tian , Lemeng Wang , Zheda Mai , Vidhi Bakshi , Jiacheng Hou , Ping Zhang , Arpita Chowdhury , Jianyang Gu , Wei-Lun Chao

Current robot platforms are being employed to collaborate with humans in a wide range of domestic and industrial tasks. These environments require autonomous systems that are able to classify and communicate anomalous situations such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Octavio Arriaga , Paul Plöger , Matias Valdenegro-Toro

Deep learning-based detection networks have made remarkable progress in autonomous driving systems (ADS). ADS should have reliable performance across a variety of ambient lighting and adverse weather conditions. However, luminance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Shruthi Gowda , Bahram Zonooz , Elahe Arani

Wildlife populations in Africa face severe threats, with vertebrate numbers declining by over 65% in the past five decades. In response, image classification using deep learning has emerged as a promising tool for biodiversity monitoring…

The target of this paper is to recommend a way for Automated classification of Fish species. A high accuracy fish classification is required for greater understanding of fish behavior in Ichthyology and by marine biologists. Maintaining a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Dhruv Rathi , Sushant Jain , Dr. S. Indu

Visuals captured by high-flying aerial drones are increasingly used to assess biodiversity and animal population dynamics around the globe. Yet, challenging acquisition scenarios and tiny animal depictions in airborne imagery, despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Mowen Xue , Theo Greenslade , Majid Mirmehdi , Tilo Burghardt

Background: The mapping of tree species within Norwegian forests is a time-consuming process, involving forest associations relying on manual labeling by experts. The process can involve both aerial imagery, personal familiarity, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Martijn Vermeer , Jacob Alexander Hay , David Völgyes , Zsófia Koma , Johannes Breidenbach , Daniele Stefano Maria Fantin

Humans are able to categorize images very efficiently, in particular to detect the presence of an animal very quickly. Recently, deep learning algorithms based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved higher than human accuracy…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-06-01 Jean-Nicolas Jérémie , Laurent U Perrinet

This paper addresses the critical challenge of vehicle detection in the harsh winter conditions in the Nordic regions, characterized by heavy snowfall, reduced visibility, and low lighting. Due to their susceptibility to environmental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Hamam Mokayed , Rajkumar Saini , Oluwatosin Adewumi , Lama Alkhaled , Bjorn Backe , Palaiahnakote Shivakumara , Olle Hagner , Yan Chai Hum

Efficient on-device models have become attractive for near-sensor insight generation, of particular interest to the ecological conservation community. For this reason, deep learning researchers are proposing more approaches to develop lower…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Emmanuel Azuh Mensah , Joban Mand , Yueheng Ou , Min Jang , Kurtis Heimerl

Object detectors trained on large-scale RGB datasets are being extensively employed in real-world applications. However, these RGB-trained models suffer a performance drop under adverse illumination and lighting conditions. Infrared (IR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Vibashan VS , Domenick Poster , Suya You , Shuowen Hu , Vishal M. Patel

We address the problem of learning self-supervised representations from unlabeled image collections. Unlike existing approaches that attempt to learn useful features by maximizing similarity between augmented versions of each input image or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Omiros Pantazis , Gabriel Brostow , Kate Jones , Oisin Mac Aodha