arxivcs.CV2026-07-17
DS@GT ARC at AnimalCLEF 2026: Species-Aware Graph Construction for Multi-Species Animal Re-Identification
Evan Sinclair Smith, Anthony Miyaguchi, Snigdha Palamari, Danté Evangelista
Automated individual animal re-identification is essential for large-scale biodiversity monitoring; however, field imagery complicates separating identity cues from nuisance variation in pose, illumination, background, resolution, and species-specific morphology. The DS@GT ARC su…