We are happy to announce that the 2025 Workshop on Camera Traps, AI, and Ecology will be held as a hybrid event in Seattle, USA hosted by Ai2 on September 9th and 10th. Registration is now open! Please register by filling in the form here. Note that the number of on-site participants is strictly limited to 30 people so please register early to secure your place. You can join online via: https://meet.google.com/dns-fitn-sgr

Paper submission deadline: July 2nd, 2025 at 23:59 (AOE)
Notification of authors: August 14th, 2025
Camera-ready deadline: August 28th, 2025 at 23:59 (AOE)

Tanya Berger‑Wolf The Ohio State University Tanya Berger-Wolf is the Director of the Translational Data Analytics Institute and a Professor of Computer Science Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, as well as Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at the Ohio State University.	Iain D. Couzin Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior Iain Couzin is Director of the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and a Professor and Director (Speaker) of the German Research Foundation (DFG) Excellence Cluster “Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour” at the University of Konstanz, Germany.
Dan Morris Google AI for Nature Dan Morris is a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google AI for Nature. Previously, he was Principal Scientist and Program Director at Microsoft AI for Earth.	Ulrik Pagh Schultz Lundquist University of Southern Denmark Ulrik Pagh Schultz Lundquist is Full Professor and Head of the Drone Center (SDU UAS) at the University of Southern Denmark. He is currently coordinator for the WildDrone project.

All times are shown in Pacific Daylight Time (PDT = UTC-7)
Keynote Presentations will be 30min. (+15min. Q&A), Paper Presentations are 15min. (+5min. Q&A)

Day 1 - Tuesday, September 9, 2025
8:30 - 9:00	Arrival and Registration of On-site Attendees + Welcome Coffee Join online via: https://meet.google.com/dns-fitn-sgr
9:00 - 9:15	Opening and Welcome from the Organizers Christoph Praschl, Paul Bodesheim, Tilo Burghardt
9:15 - 10:00	Keynote Presentation #1 Ulrik Pagh Schultz Lundquist (University of Southern Denmark) Title: TBC
10:00 - 10:45	Paper Session #1: Fine-grained Species Classification Text-Assisted Zero-Shot Classification of Fine-Grained Animal Species animl: A Modular Toolkit for Automating Wildlife Species Classification in Python and R
10:45 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:45	Paper Session #2: Open-source Software for Animal Monitoring TeraiNet: An open-source blueprint for the fast and flexible development of local species classification models Akili: Facilitating participatory biodiversity monitoring through software co-development
11:45 - 12:30	Keynote Presentation #3 Tanya Berger‑Wolf (Ohio State University) Time & Title: TBC
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:15	Keynote Presentation #2 Ted Schmitt and Jes Lefcourt (AI2) Title: TBC
14:15 - 15:00	Paper Session #3: Wildlife Tracking and Interaction Multi-Object Tracking of Wildlife in Forests Using Nadir Thermal Aerial Videos Tracking Phenological Status and Ecological Interactions in a Hawaiian Cloud Forest Understory using Low-Cost Camera Traps and Visual Foundation Models
15:00 - 15:30	Panel Discussion and Wrap-up of Day 1 Christoph Praschl, Paul Bodesheim, Tilo Burghardt
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break, End of Day 1 for Online Participants
16:00 - open end	Social Event in Seattle Optional: Joint Dinner (self-paid)

Day 2 - Wednesday, September 10, 2025
8:30 - 9:00	Arrival and Registration of On-site Attendees + Welcome Coffee Join online via: https://meet.google.com/dns-fitn-sgr
9:00 - 9:15	Recap of Day 1 and Welcome to Day 2 Christoph Praschl, Paul Bodesheim, Tilo Burghardt
9:15 - 10:00	Keynote Presentation #4 Iain D. Couzin (Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior) Title: TBC
10:00 - 10:45	Paper Session #4: Animal Detection and Localization Exploiting Unlabeled Images via Self-Training with Pseudo-Labelling for Insect Localisation in Automated Monitoring HLW2025: Benchmark for Fine-Grain Object Detection of the Hume’s Leaf Warbler with CameraTraps
10:45 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:45	Keynote Presentation #5 Dan Morris (Google AI for Nature) Title: TBC
11:45 - 12:30	Panel Discussion, Closing Remarks and Farewell Christoph Praschl, Paul Bodesheim, Tilo Burghardt
12:30	End of Workshop
12:30 - 13:30	Joint Lunch for On-Site Attendees

Please note that the number of on-site participants is strictly limited to 30 people.

The address for on-site participants is:
Allen Institute for AI
Northlake Commons
3800 Latona Ave NE Suite 300
Seattle, WA 98105

Google AI for Nature and Society

If you have any questions regarding on-site participation, please contact organisers Tilo, Paul and Otto.

Team at University of Bristol

Tilo Burghardt Otto Brookes Majid Mirmehdi

Team at University of Jena

Paul Bodesheim Dimitri Korsch Joachim Denzler

Programme Committee

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Christoph Praschl (Upper Austrian University of Applied Sciences, Campus Hagenberg)
David Schedl (Upper Austrian University of Applied Sciences, Campus Hagenberg)
Hjalmar S Kuehl (Senckenberg and TU Dresden)
Alexander Mathis (EPFL, Mathis Group for Computational Neuroscience and AI)
Aishwarya Venkataramanan (Computer Vision Group, Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
Sven Sickert (Computer Vision Group, Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
Maik Henrich (Wildlife Ecology and Management, University of Freiburg)
Timm Haucke (MIT CSAIL, Beerylab)
Dan Morris (Google AI for Nature)