针对野生动物相机陷阱数据长尾分布问题,提出高效物种识别方法。
Benchmarking NACTI Species Recognition in Long-Tailed Regimes

- 基于PyTorch Wildlife模型,优化损失函数与正则化策略提升长尾识别
- 在NACTI测试集上达到99.40%准确率,显著优于现有方法
- 适用于野外复杂场景下物种识别,尤其适合关注罕见物种的生态研究
如同自然界中大多数野外采集的数据集一样,北美相机陷阱图像(NACTI)数据集存在严重的类别长尾不平衡问题,最大类别覆盖了370万张图像中的50%以上。本文在PyTorch Wildlife模型基础上,系统评估了长尾识别(LTR)方法,包括专用损失函数和敏感正则化技术。优化配置在NACTI测试集上实现99.40%的Top-1准确率,显著超越标准基线和先前最优结果。为评估模型在领域偏移下的鲁棒性(如夜间拍摄、遮挡、运动模糊),我们在三个独立去偏测试集(ENA-Detection、Caltech Camera Traps、Missouri Camera Traps)上进行扩展评估。结果显示,经过LTR增强的模型在分布外(OOD)任务中表现出更强泛化能力,远超标准交叉熵方法。然而,定性与定量分析表明,当前的LTR优化仍无法完全克服表征瓶颈,在严重领域偏移下,稀有类别('Tail'类)仍会出现灾难性预测崩溃。为确保可复现性,本文已公开所有数据划分、核心代码及网络权重,详见https://github.com/ZehuaLiuY/Species-Classification。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
As with most ``in the wild'' collections of the natural world, the North America Camera Trap Images (NACTI) dataset exhibits long-tailed class imbalance, with the largest class covering over 50% of its 3.7M images. Building on the PyTorch Wildlife model, we systematically evaluate Long-Tail Recognition (LTR) methodologies to benchmark species recognition performance, including specialised loss functions and LTR-sensitive regularisation. Our optimised configuration achieves state-of-the-art 99.40% Top-1 accuracy on the NACTI test split, significantly outperforming standard baselines and previously reported top performances. To assess robustness under domain shifts (e.g., night-time captures, occlusion, motion-blur), we extend our evaluation across three independent reduced-bias test sets (including ENA-Detection, Caltech Camera Traps and Missouri Camera Traps). Across these out-of-distribution (OOD) evaluations, our LTR-enhanced model consistently demonstrates substantially stronger generalisation capabilities compared to standard cross-entropy approaches. However, qualitative and quantitative analyses underline that current LTR optimisations cannot fully overcome representational bottlenecks, resulting in catastrophic predictive breakdown for rare `Tail' classes under severe domain shift. For maximum reproducibility, all dataset splits, key code, and network weights are published with this paper at https://github.com/ZehuaLiuY/Species-Classification.
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