Nina Giotto

Few Annotations, High Accuracy: Transfer Learning and Data Augmentation Improve Passive Acoustic Monitoring of the Vulnerable African Manatee

Monitoring elusive and threatened species remains a major challenge in ecology and conservation, particularly in turbid aquatic environments. The African manatee ( Trichechus senegalensis ), listed as Vulnerable by the IUCN, remains difficult to survey using visual methods, limiting reliable assessments of it...