At the CV4Ecology Workshop at ECCV 2026, Christoph presented two of our recent papers together with Hugo Markoff, showcasing new approaches to AI-based wildlife monitoring from aerial RGB and thermal video. The first paper, When One Modality Is Not Enough: Multimodal Sex and Life-Stage Classification of Red Deer from Aerial RGB/Thermal Video, explores how combining …
This summer, Christoph Praschl represented our team at SIGGRAPH 2026 in Los Angeles, where he presented our latest work on synthetic data for wildlife detection. The poster, “From Virtual Forests to Real Wildlife: Synthetic Non-Radiometric Thermal UAV Data for Animal Detection,” introduces a simulation pipeline that generates synthetic RGB and thermal drone imagery of forest …
We are pleased to share that our paper, “Stay Local or Go Global: Geo-Referenced Bounding Boxes for Tracking Wildlife in Thermal Drone Videos,” has been accepted and published in IET Computer Vision. In this work, we investigate how geo-referenced information can improve wildlife tracking in thermal drone videos. By combining animal detections with drone position, …
Our colleague Christoph Praschl attended this year’s CVPR 2026 in Denver. As part of the CV4Animals workshop, he presented the paper “The BAMBI Dataset: Multimodal Nadir UAV Recordings of Forest Wildlife” together with Hugo Markoff from Aalborg University (Denmark) and Sara Beery from MIT (USA). The focus is on the drone-based wildlife dataset created as …
From March 9 to March 11, 2026, Christoph attended this year’s GRIVAPP Conference 2026 in Marbella, Spain. During the conference, he presented his current research titled “Evaluation of Novel View Synthesis in the Context of Radiometric Drone Imagery.” In this work, he and his colleagues investigated how modern neural rendering approaches, such as NeRF and …
Our colleague Christoph Praschl had the opportunity to present the research paper “Synthetic UAV Imagery for Ecological Monitoring Using Generative Artificial Intelligence” at EUROCAST 2026 – The 20th International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory. The work explores how LoRA-adapted diffusion models can be used to generate high-quality synthetic RGB and thermal UAV imagery, even …
From September 22 to 26, the University of Konstanz hosted the WildDrone Summer School—a week-long intensive course that brings together the latest scientific findings on drone technologies, computer vision, and conservation ecology. Our colleague Christoph had the opportunity to participate and present both the BAMBI research project and his dissertation project THUMPER. A central goal …
The fifth edition of the workshop on “Camera Traps, AI, and Ecology” took place on September 9-10, 2025, at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) in Seattle. Following last year’s event at the Hagenberg Campus of the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, the workshop traveled halfway around the world to the Pacific Northwest. Our …
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At the International Wildlife Congress 2025 (IWC 2025) in Lillehammer, Norway, our BAMBI project was represented by Christoph Praschl, Andreas Stöckl, and David C. Schedl from the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria (FH OÖ), together with Stephanie Wohlfahrt from the Office for Wildlife Ecology. The team presented the poster “Advancing Wildlife Monitoring: Drone-Based Sampling …
We cordially invite you to the final meeting of our research project “BAMBI (Biodiversity Airborne Monitoring Based on Intelligent UAV sampling)”. Over the past three years, we have conducted extensive field studies together with our partners and have gained valuable insights into how drones can be used effectively in combination with modern AI and innovative …