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 …
Last week, our colleague Anna Maschek had the opportunity to present our research group and our research project BAMBI at the 18th Visual Computing Winter Workshop Austria (Wintergraph) from January 12 to 14, 2025 in Kaprun (Austria). The workshop, organized by the Vienna University of Technology, served as a platform for the exchange of new …
Yesterday, the project team around Wolfram Jantsch, Rudi Schneeberger and Christoph Praschl took off with over 20 drone flights to southeastern Styria (into the dreamy autumnal surroundings of Riegersburg)! Our goal? To collect extensive data to evaluate our light field-based AI system in order to compare it with the most modern object detectors and classic …
We are excited to announce that our research project, BAMBI, will be showcased in the upcoming Future Talk: Climate X Change series hosted by KunstHausWien on 14.11.2024. As part of a thought-provoking evening focusing on “Climate, Art, and Artificial Intelligence,” our colleague David Schedl will present the project’s innovative approach to wildlife monitoring. The Future …
Our colleague Christoph Praschl had the pleasure of presenting our BAMBI research project at the Brainstage in Linz. Right in the heart of the city, Upper Austrian universities were able to bring technology and science closer to a wide audience. Under the motto ‘We need more surveillance’, Christoph was able to take a brief excursion …
The SIGGRAPH 2024 conference in Denver, USA, recently brought together the global community of computer graphics and interactive techniques enthusiasts for a week of innovation, collaboration, and discovery. Among the many presentations, also our team was able to showcase our recent publication on “Reconstructionless Airborne Radiance Fields” (https://github.com/bambi-eco/RARF) during the session on Fast Radiance Fields. …
In February, as part of our research project, we carried out drone flights in a forest area in Salzburg equipped with camera traps. To provide a seasonal comparison, we returned this Tuesday in bright sunshine and temperatures of up to 35°C in the shade. On this occasion we completed a further 18 flights over a …