Artificial intelligence for climate change biology: from data collection to predictions

O Levy, S Shahar - Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2024 - academic.oup.com
In the era of big data, ecological research is experiencing a transformative shift, yet big-data
advancements in thermal ecology and the study of animal responses to climate conditions …

Advanced image recognition: a fully automated, high-accuracy photo-identification matching system for humpback whales

T Cheeseman, K Southerland, J Park, M Olio… - Mammalian …, 2022 - Springer
We describe the development and application of a new convolutional neural network-based
photo-identification algorithm for individual humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) …

Elephants and algorithms: a review of the current and future role of AI in elephant monitoring

L Brickson, L Zhang, F Vollrath… - Journal of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) present revolutionary opportunities to
enhance our understanding of animal behaviour and conservation strategies. Using …

Leveraging camera traps and artificial intelligence to explore thermoregulation behaviour

B Shermeister, D Mor, O Levy - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Behavioural thermoregulation has critical ecological and physiological consequences that
profoundly influence individual fitness and species distributions, particularly in the context of …

NORPPA: Novel ringed seal re-identification by pelage pattern aggregation

E Nepovinnykh, T Eerola… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We propose a method for Saimaa ringed seal re-identification. Access to large image
volumes through camera trapping and crowdsourcing provides novel possibilities for animal …

Artificial intelligence for right whale photo identification: from data science competition to worldwide collaboration

C Khan, D Blount, J Parham, J Holmberg, P Hamilton… - Mammalian …, 2022 - Springer
Photo identification is an important tool in the conservation management of endangered
species, and recent developments in artificial intelligence are revolutionizing existing …

Catflw: Cat facial landmarks in the wild dataset

G Martvel, N Farhat, I Shimshoni… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Animal affective computing is a quickly growing field of research, where only recently first
efforts to go beyond animal tracking into recognizing their internal states, such as pain and …

Automated Detection of Cat Facial Landmarks

G Martvel, I Shimshoni, A Zamansky - International Journal of Computer …, 2024 - Springer
The field of animal affective computing is rapidly emerging, and analysis of facial
expressions is a crucial aspect. One of the most significant challenges that researchers in …

An open‐source general purpose machine learning framework for individual animal re‐identification using few‐shot learning

O Wahltinez, SJ Wahltinez - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Animal re‐identification remains a challenging problem due to the cost of tagging systems
and the difficulty of permanently attaching a physical marker to some animals, such as sea …

Automatic individual identification of patterned solitary species based on unlabeled video data

V Suessle, M Arandjelovic, AK Kalan, A Agbor… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The manual processing and analysis of videos from camera traps is time-consuming and
includes several steps, ranging from the filtering of falsely triggered footage to identifying …