Thank you to everyone who joined us at #NeurIPS2025 for the inaugural AI for Non-Human Animal Communication workshop! Seeing a room full of researchers from ML, bioacoustics, and ethology gather around shared questions was such an exciting moment for the field.

The goal of semantic correspondence estimation is to establish semantically meaningful matches across different images of an object. It turns out however that recent supervised methods generalize poorly beyond the annotated keypoints seen during training. #NeurIPS2025

Today at #NeurIPS2025, Bingchen Zhao will be presenting our new LLM Speedrunning Benchmark which evaluates an LLM agent's ability to reproduce scientific finding in the context of LLM training. Stop by poster #3313 from 4:30pm to 7:30pm at #NuerIPS2025 today in San Diego to learn more.

Leonie @bossemel.bsky.social will be presenting CleverBirds, our new human visual learning dataset, at #NeurIPS2025 in San Diego today. Stop by poster #2012 from 11am-2pm to learn more.

Want to discover and visualise the differences between two different machine learning models? We will be presenting Neehar's work on "Representational Difference Explanations" at #NeurIPS2025 in San Diego from 4:30pm to 7:30pm PT today. Poster #1115. Full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.23917

We will be presenting Elle Miller's (@elle-miller.bsky.social) work on Enhancing Tactile-based Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Control at #NeurIPS2025 in San Diego today. Stop by poster #2317 from 11am to 2pm PT today to learn more. Full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.21609

Check out this fantastic TED talk from Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social In it, she talks about how computer vision techniques can assist with extracting a wealth of information and insights from large image collections that depict the natural world.

Traditional clustering methods aim to group unlabelled data points based on their similarity to each other. However, clustering, in the absence of additional information, is an ill-posed problem as there may be many different, yet equally valid, ways to partition a dataset.

We have PhD opportunity (start date Sep 2026) at the University of Edinburgh at the intersection of biodiversity mapping and zoonotic disease prediction. It is part of the UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in Biomedical Innovation based in the School of Informatics: ai4bi-cdt.ed.ac.uk

Check out Neehar's (@therealpaneni.bsky.social) upcoming #NeurIPS2025 paper titled: Representational Difference Explanations He has a cool new approach for enabling more direct and interpretable model comparisons by isolating representational differences between models. arxiv.org/abs/2505.23917

Check out Leonie's (@bossemel.bsky.social) upcoming NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks paper about a really interesting new dataset for evaluating models of human visual learning.

Great PhD opportunity to work with Serge and Toke on a really interesting computer vision / machine learning problem.

Meet our speakers for the AI for Non-Human Animal Communication workshop at @NeurIPSConf! 🐬 Laela Sayigh – decoding dolphin communication 🦇 Oisin Mac Aodha – AI for biodiversity monitoring 🐦 Julie Elie – neural mechanisms of songbird & bat vocal learning Learn more and join: aiforanimalcomms.org

Viacheslav's group does fantastic work in machine learning in geometric learning and uncertainty quantification. For those looking to start a PhD in the near future this is a brilliant opportunity to work with a great advisor! #phd #ml #edinburgh

Interested in doing a PhD in machine learning at the University of Edinburgh starting Sept 2026? My group works on topics in vision, machine learning, and AI for climate. For more information and details on how to get in touch, please check out my website: homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/omacaod

Working at the intersection of AI and Climate/Conservation? If so, check out our upcoming workshop which will taking place at #EurIPS in Copenhagen in December 2025. sites.google.com/g.harvard.ed... @euripsconf.bsky.social ‬

The US-UK Scientific Forum on Measuring Biodiversity for Addressing the Global Biodiversity Crisis summary report is now available. I participated earlier this year and it was really enlightening. The report covers explores tools, challenges, and solutions for tackling the biodiversity crisis.

This week at #ICML we are presenting our new work titled Feedforward Few-shot Species Range Estimation. TLDR; * Our model, FS-SINR, can estimate a species' range from few observations * It does not require an retraining for previously unseen species * It can integrate text and image information

We are not missing out! FGVC12 is excited to support "FOMO25: Foundation Model Challenge for Brain MRI". This MICCAI25 challenge is still running and there is still time to participate! Submission deadline: August 20, 2025 Join here: fomo25.github.io Check out the thread below👇

CrossSDF: 3D Reconstruction of Thin Structures From Cross-Sections We will be presenting our work on thin structure reconstruction at the final poster session (4-6pm) at #CVPR2025 today. Stop by poster #457 to learn more.

DepthCues: Evaluating Monocular Depth Perception in Large Vision Models Do automated monocular depth estimation methods use similar visual cues to humans? To learn more, stop by poster #405 in the evening session (17:00 to 19:00) today at #CVPR2025.

MVSAnywhere: Zero-Shot Multi-View Stereo Looking for a multi-view stereo depth estimation model which works anywhere, in any scene, with any range of depths? If so, stop by our poster #81 today in the morning session (10:30 to 12:20) at #CVPR2025.

Check out Nikolas @tsagkas.bsky.social and Danier's work on understanding the limitations of pre-trained visual representations for visuomotor robot learning at the Embodied AI Workshop at CVPR 2025 today.

Come join us for the 12th Workshop on Fine-Grained Visual Categorization (FGVC). Starting today at 9am at @cvprconference.bsky.social. We will be in room 104E. #FGVC #CVPR2025 @fgvcworkshop.bsky.social

Please join us for the FGVC workshop at CVPR 2025 @cvprconference.bsky.social on Wed 11th of June. The full schedule and list of fantastic speakers can be found on our website: sites.google.com/view/fgvc12

Come join us for an early morning walk at CVPR next week.

I really enjoyed Climate AI Nordics' workshop in Gothenburg this week. There were some really great talks and conversations. Keep an eye out for next year's event in Copenhagen! climateainordics.com

Tomorrow in poster session 2 at #ICLR2025 Neehar (@therealpaneni.bsky.social) will be presenting his work on comparing neural networks via concepts. Representational Similarity via Interpretable Visual Concepts arxiv.org/abs/2503.15699 nkondapa.github.io/rsvc-page/

Foram2025: Classifying microfossil volumes – the first step to understanding past climates. 👉 www.kaggle.com/competitions... @cvprconference.bsky.social @kaggle.com #FGVC #CVPR #CVPR2025 QIM Center (qim.dk) [1/5]

Check out Neehar Kondapaneni's upcoming ICLR 2025 work which proposes a new approach for understanding how two neural networks differ by discovering the shared and unique concepts learned by the networks. Representational Similarity via Interpretable Visual Concepts arxiv.org/abs/2503.15699

BirdCLEF25: Audio-based species identification focused on birds, amphibians, mammals, and insects in Colombia. 👉 www.kaggle.com/competitions... @cvprconference.bsky.social @kaggle.com #FGVC #CVPR #CVPR2025 #LifeCLEF [1/4]

FathomNet25: Navigating the Depths: Advancing Hierarchical Classification of Ocean Life www.kaggle.com/competitions... @fathomnet.bsky.social @fathomverse.bsky.social @mbarinews.bsky.social @cvprconference.bsky.social @kaggle.com #FGVC #CVPR #CVPR2025 [1/5]

AnimalCLEF25: Multi-species individual animal identification www.kaggle.com/competitions... @cvprconference.bsky.social @kaggle.com #FGVC #CVPR #CVPR2025 #LifeCLEF [1/4]

GeoLifeCLEF25: Location-based species presence prediction 👉 www.kaggle.com/competitions... @cvprconference.bsky.social @kaggle.com #FGVC #CVPR #CVPR2025 #LifeCLEF [1/3]

PlantCLEF25: Multi-species plant identification in vegetation quadrat images 👉 www.kaggle.com/competitions... @cvprconference.bsky.social @kaggle.com #FGVC #CVPR #CVPR2025 #LifeCLEF [1/4]

FungiCLEF25: Few-shot classification with rare fungi species 👉 www.kaggle.com/competitions... @cvprconference.bsky.social @kaggle.com #FGVC #CVPR #CVPR2025 #LifeCLEF [1/2]

Looking for a challenge? Along with FGVC12 at #CVPR2025, multiple fine-grained computer vision competitions have been launched. These well-curated datasets allow you to leverage your AI skills to boost applications with impact! Let's go: sites.google.com/view/fgvc12/... @cvprconference.bsky.social

In need of a general purpose and robust multi-view depth method? Check out @sizquierdo.bsky.social upcoming #CVPR 2025 paper that I was fortunate to be a part of.

The deadline for non-archival short paper submissions to the FGVC workshop at #CVPR2025 as been extended by a few days. sites.google.com/view/fgvc12 @cvprconference.bsky.social

Please share broadly to your networks so this can reach its intended audience! And we are also looking for volunteers to help instruct/mentor. Details here: cv4ecology.caltech.edu/ai-upskillin...

Hello Bluesky! Good to see you all again! Job alert: I'm looking to recruit a postdoc interested in working at the interface of AI and wildlife ecology, supported by the AI for Biodiversity Change (ABC) Global Center. Apply by April 15, 2025. gaynorlab.weebly.com/join-us.html

Come and work with us! Be a Postdoctoral Fellow in AI for Ultrasonic Bioacoustic Monitoring! All the details: https://www.naturalis.nl/en/about-us/job-opportunities/postdoctoral-fellow-in-ai-for-ultrasonic-bioacoustic-monitoring #academicjobs #postdoc #pdra #netherlands #biodiversity #ai […]

Congrats Santiago!

Navigating the Depths – New FathomNet Kaggle competition is live! Join the FathomNet Kaggle Competition with @fgvcworkshop.bsky.social to show us how you would develop a model that can accurately classify varying taxonomic ranks!  www.kaggle.com/competitions... 🧪🌊🖥️🐙 Learn more ⬇️

The submission deadline for FGVC has been extended by a few days.

Reminder that the deadlines for submitting papers to the FGVC workshop at #CVPR2025 are coming up soon. The scope of the workshop is quite broad, e.g. fine-grained learning, multi-modal, human in the loop, etc. More info here: sites.google.com/view/fgvc12/... @cvprconference.bsky.social

Amazing achievement from iNaturalist! Also really proud that our SINR species range estimation models serve as the underlying technology for this. Spatial Implicit Neural Representations for Global-Scale Species Mapping arxiv.org/abs/2306.02564

There have been a bonanza of forestry and biodiversity papers out this week; here's what I've been reading from @oisinmacaodha.bsky.social on biodiversity and AI, @emilyrlines.bsky.social on tree species identification and @cst.cam.ac.uk on a tree hugging phone app anil.recoil.org/notes/forest... 🌏

Do Large Language Models (LLMs) possess ecological knowledge? For example, can they do tasks such as: (1) predict the presence of species at a location (2) generate range maps (3) list critically endangered species (4) perform threat assessment (5) estimate species traits

We have open PhD positions starting Sept 2025 in computer vision and machine learning at the University of Edinburgh. UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in Dependable and Deployable AI for Robotics (CDT-D2AIR) www.edinburgh-robotics.org/apply Round one application deadline: Feb 16th