BarkNet-Lite: A Lightweight Texture and Colour Network with the BarkBD Benchmark for Bark-Based Tree Species Recognition in Bangladesh
Tree species recognition supports forest inventory and biodiversity monitoring but still depends on scarce taxonomic expertise. Bark is visible year-round at ground level, yet bark recognition has concentrated on temperate floras and on large ImageNet-pre-trained backbones. We address both gaps. First, we release BarkB...