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  • Ecology
  • Computational Biology
  • Animal Behavior

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  • Photo-identification is crucial for individual-based ecological inference but is limited by expert time for large datasets.
  • Current deep learning methods often treat photos independently, ignoring social structures and non-random associations within encounters.
  • Analyzing decades-long photo-identification archives requires scalable solutions that leverage inherent data structures.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a model-agnostic, encounter-level identification procedure that incorporates social context as a probabilistic component.
  • To improve the accuracy and scalability of automated photo-identification by leveraging historical co-occurrence data.
  • To create a method that requires minimal computational overhead and integrates seamlessly with existing image models.

Main Methods:

  • A log-linear fusion of image-based probabilities, global sighting priors, and an encounter-conditioned context term derived from historical co-occurrence.
  • The method functions as lightweight post-processing, requiring no retraining or architectural changes to the base image model.
  • Evaluation using a longitudinal dataset of West Coast Transient Bigg's killer whales in both expert-assisted and fully automated settings.

Main Results:

  • Encounter-context fusion reduced top-1 error by 14%-25% in expert-assisted settings and up to 24% in fully automated settings.
  • Macro-F1 scores improved by +0.088 to +0.104 in automated identification with sufficient training history.
  • Performance gains were confirmed to depend on meaningful co-occurrence structure, with placebo and seed-corruption controls showing collapse when context was removed.

Conclusions:

  • Incorporating social context into automated photo-identification significantly enhances accuracy and scalability.
  • The encounter-level approach bridges traditional animal society analysis with modern computational pipelines.
  • This method is broadly applicable to any species observed in groups, offering a transparent way to integrate social dynamics into identification.