arxivcs.CVcs.AI2026-07-10
Parameter-Efficient Vision-Language Adaptation with Continuous Metadata Conditioning for Animal Re-Identification
Anil Osman Tur, Tonje Knutsen Sordalen, Kim Tallaksen Halvorsen, Cigdem Beyan
Long-term animal re-identification (ReID) must remain robust to gradual morphological evolution and seasonal appearance shifts. Although recent vision-language models provide strong pretrained visual representations, adapting them to longitudinal ecological settings remains chall…