arXiv:2604.20000cs.CV2026-04IJCV

针对空中影像中小而稀有的野生动物检测难题,提出高效检测与标注框架。

RareSpot+: A Benchmark, Model, and Active Learning Framework for Small and Rare Wildlife in Aerial Imagery

论文配图:RareSpot+: A Benchmark, Model, and Active Learning Framework for Small and Rare Wildlife in Aerial Imagery
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  • 通过多尺度一致性损失提升小目标定位能力
  • 在2平方公里数据上检测准确率提升35.2%(绝对值+0.13)
  • 仅用1.7%标注量实现14.5%的性能提升,适合生态监测场景

从航空影像中自动监测野生动物对保护工作至关重要,但长期受限于小而稀有物种检测难和大规模专家标注成本高两大问题。土拨鼠是典型代表——它们生态重要却体型微小、分布稀疏、与背景视觉相似,传统检测模型难以应对。为此,我们提出RareSpot+,集成多尺度一致性学习、上下文感知增强和地理空间引导的主动学习,解决上述挑战。新颖的多尺度一致性损失在不改变架构前提下对齐各检测头中间特征图,有效提升小目标(约30像素宽)定位精度;上下文感知增强通过合成生态上合理的困难样本,提高模型鲁棒性。地理空间主动学习模块结合土拨鼠与洞穴的空间先验,辅以测试时增强和元不确定性模型,显著减少冗余标注。在2平方公里航空影像数据集上,RareSpot+相比基线模型mAP@50提升35.2%(绝对值+0.13)。跨数据集测试在HerdNet、AED等野生动物基准上验证了模型强泛化能力。主动学习模块仅使用1.7%未标注瓦片,使土拨鼠检测平均精度提升14.5%。此外,该框架支持聚类与共现等空间生态分析,实现视觉检测与定量生态研究的融合。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Automated wildlife monitoring from aerial imagery is vital for conservation but remains limited by two persistent challenges: the difficulty of detecting small, rare species and the high cost of large-scale expert annotation. Prairie dogs exemplify this problem -- they are ecologically important yet appear tiny, sparsely distributed, and visually indistinct from their surroundings, posing a severe challenge for conventional detection models. To overcome these limitations, we present RareSpot+, a detection framework that integrates multi-scale consistency learning, context-aware augmentation, and geospatially guided active learning to address these issues. A novel multi-scale consistency loss aligns intermediate feature maps across detection heads, enhancing localization of small (approx. 30 pixels wide) objects without architectural changes, while context-aware augmentation improves robustness by synthesizing hard, ecologically plausible examples. A geospatial active learning module exploits domain-specific spatial priors linking prairie dogs and burrows, together with test-time augmentation and a meta-uncertainty model, to reduce redundant labeling. On a 2 km^2 aerial dataset, RareSpot+ improves detection over the baseline mAP@50 by +35.2% (absolute +0.13). Cross-dataset tests on HerdNet, AED, and several other wildlife benchmarks demonstrate robust detector-level transferability. The active learning module further boosts prairie dog AP by 14.5% using an annotation budget of just 1.7% of the unlabeled tiles. Beyond detection, RareSpot+ enables spatial ecological analyses such as clustering and co-occurrence, linking vision-based detection with quantitative ecology.

目标检测生态监测主动学习小样本

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