Lessons and Open Questions from a Unified Study of Camera-Trap Species Recognition Over Time

ArXi:2603.20509v1 Announce Type: new Camera traps are vital for large-scale biodiversity monitoring, yet accurate automated analysis remains challenging due to diverse deployment environments. While the computer vision community has mostly framed this challenge as cross-domain generalization, this perspective overlooks a primary challenge faced by ecological practitioners: maintaining reliable recognition at the fixed site over time, where the dynamic nature of ecosystems