Ben G. Weinstein

MillionTrees: A global benchmark for tree detection across geography, sensor, and annotation geometry

The paper introduces MillionTrees, a global benchmark dataset for airborne tree detection, showing that current models struggle to generalize across diverse data and that training on MillionTrees improves performance.

DroneMegaDetector, A Generalised Model For Detecting Large Mammals In Aerial Imagery

The paper introduces a general-purpose object detector for large mammals in aerial drone imagery and evaluates its performance across diverse datasets and conditions.

Using time-series remote sensing to identify and track individual bird nests at large scales

This study develops an automated remote sensing approach to track individual bird nests using time-series UAS imagery in the Everglades, showing comparable performance to human assessment.

A probabilistic view of forbidden links: their prevalence and their consequences for the robustness of plant-hummingbird communities

The paper assesses the prevalence and impact of exploitation barriers on network robustness in plant-hummingbird communities using a Bayesian hierarchical model and interaction data.

Near real-time monitoring of wading birds using uncrewed aircraft systems and computer vision

This paper presents an end-to-end workflow for near real-time monitoring of wading birds using drones and computer vision, achieving species-level counts for five out of six target species.