针对野外动物识别中的未知个体发现,提出校准融合与分物种预处理新方法。
Calibrated Similarity and Graph Clustering for Open-Set Animal Re-Identification

- 用分割+物种特异性预处理增强关键特征,再通过全局局部融合计算相似度
- 在多个物种上达到0.721的公开ARI,优于基线模型
- 适合野外动物监测、生态研究等开放场景下的身份识别任务
AnimalCLEF26关注发现导向的动物重识别问题,要求系统既能将查询图像匹配到已知个体,也能正确聚类出未见个体。本文提出一种从分割到相似度校准再到图聚类的端到端流程,应用于欧亚猞猁、火蝾螈、棱皮龟和德州角蜥的图像。首先通过分割定位目标个体,对猞猁、海龟和蝾螈采用轻量级物种特异性预处理以增强身份相关视觉线索,德州角蜥仅经分割后直接处理。使用WildFusion校准并融合MiewID全局描述子与两组局部匹配分支(ALIKED+LightGlue、DISK+LightGlue)计算成对相似度。查询-查询相似度经图聚类生成身份簇,查询-数据库相似度用于确认高置信度匹配。评估了免训练与微调的MiewID变体,包括Dynamic ArcFace和SphereFace2-Focal改进,并在最终集成中组合使用。所选集成在公开数据集上达到0.72124的最高公共ARI,私有测试集达0.70393;更简单的预处理-校准顺序方案在私有集上取得0.71087的最优结果。结果表明,在复杂野外条件下,基于物种感知的预处理与校准的全局-局部融合策略对开放集野生动物重识别有效。代码已开源。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
AnimalCLEF26 addresses discovery-oriented animal re-identification, where systems must both attach query images to known individuals and discover unseen individuals by clustering them correctly. We present a similarity-to-clustering pipeline for this setting across Eurasian lynx, fire salamander, loggerhead sea turtle, and Texas horned lizard images. The method first isolates the target specimen using segmentation and then applies lightweight species-specific preprocessing for lynx, sea turtle, and salamander images to enhance identity-relevant visual cues, while Texas horned lizard images are used after segmentation only. Pairwise similarities are then estimated with WildFusion by calibrating and combining a MiewID global descriptor with two local matching branches, ALIKED + LightGlue and DISK + LightGlue. The resulting query-query similarities are refined and converted into identity clusters using graph-based clustering, while query-database similarities are used to attach confident samples to known identities. We evaluate training-free and fine-tuned MiewID variants, including Dynamic ArcFace and SphereFace2-Focal adaptations, and combine them in the final ensemble. Our selected ensemble substantially improves on the WildFusion baseline, achieving the best public ARI of 0.72124 and a private ARI of 0.70393, while a simpler preprocessing-before-calibration variant achieves the best private ARI of 0.71087. These results indicate that calibrated global-local fusion with species-aware preprocessing choices is effective for open-set wildlife re-identification under challenging field conditions and visual variation. The implementation code is available on GitHub.
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