Recent Releases of WildlifeDatasets
WildlifeDatasets - v1.0.6
New functionality
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Added support for the AnimalCLEF2025 re-identification competition.
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Added support for a new version of the WildlifeReID-10k dataset. This included adding timestamps to BirdIndividualID, CowDataset, Giraffes and SeaStarReID2023 datasets.
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Two new datasets were added: MultiCamCows2024 and PrimFace.
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SeaTurtleID2022 allows loading images of whole turtles and flippers now.
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Internal changes, making it easier to work with the package as a developer.
- Function prepare_data is much more flexible, enabling additional outputs such as splits.
- Added TimeProportionOpenSetSplit.
- Many other minor changes.
Biosphere - Terrestrial Wildlife
- Jupyter Notebook
Published by sadda 13 days ago

WildlifeDatasets - v1.0.5
New functionality
- Six new datasets were added: AmvrakikosTurtles, ReunionTurtles, SouthernProvinceTurtles, ZakynthosTurtles (sea turtles), ELPephants (elephants) and Chicks4FreeID (chickens).
- The
WildlifeDataset
(formerlyDatasetFactory
) class was restructed and multiple methods were added from wildlife-tools. This brings the benefits of:- Simple way of adding datasets in other formats - example for the parquet format.
- Easier access to images via
dataset[0]
or automatically loading cropped images via instantiatingdataset(root, img_load='bbox')
. - Significantly improved readability.
- We added links to original publications whenever we were able to find them.
Biosphere - Terrestrial Wildlife
- Jupyter Notebook
Published by sadda 6 months ago

WildlifeDatasets - v1.0.4
WildlifeReID-10k
- We released a new dataset WildlifeReID-10k depicting 214k images of 10k individuals.
- It is a collection of 30 existing re-identification datasets with permissible licenses.
- We incorporated default splits, retrained MegaDescriptor and included baseline performance.
- All scripts to create and analyze WildlifeReID-10k are publicly available.
- This dataset can now be accessed as
datasets.WildlifeReID10k
.
New functionality
- Added the newly released testing set for BelugaID. This dataset can now be accessed as
datasets.BelugaIDv2
. - Updated links for several datasets hosted at LILA BC.
- To evaluate WildlifeReID-10k, we included new metrics
metrics.BAKS
andmetrics.BAUS
. - To evaluate the difference between the random and similarity-aware splits, we added method
resplit_by_features
intosplits.BalancedSplit
.
Biosphere - Terrestrial Wildlife
- Jupyter Notebook
Published by sadda 11 months ago

WildlifeDatasets - v1.0.3
New functionality
- Three new datasets were added: CatIndividualImages (cats), CowDataset (cows) and DogFaceNet (dogs).
- The license file is shown upon download.
Other changes
- Added orientation (left, right, ...) to SeaTurtleID2022.
- Fixed two segmentations in NDD20 which may have caused problems during loading.
- Metadata including licenses and citations were updated or corrected in some cases.
Biosphere - Terrestrial Wildlife
- Jupyter Notebook
Published by sadda 12 months ago

WildlifeDatasets - v1.0.2
New functionality
- Three new datasets were added: MPDD (dogs), PolarBearVidID (polar bears) and SeaStarReID2023 (sea stars).
- Labels were fixed for Cows2021 and FriesianCattle2015. These classes appear now as Cows2021v2 and FriesianCattle2015v2 to keep backward compability. A full list of changes is in documentation.
- Visual overhaul including new logos.
Breaking functionality
- Splits were removed from the dataframes. They may be added manually.
Other changes
- SeaTurtleID was updated by SeaTurtleID2022.
- File names of images must contain only ASCII characters. Some files in IPanda50 were renamed while keeping backward compability.
- Some functions were refactored and
plot_grid
was updated.
Biosphere - Terrestrial Wildlife
- Jupyter Notebook
Published by sadda about 1 year ago

WildlifeDatasets - v1.0.0
Initial release
We are happy to introduce the first release of the wildlife-datasets library. Currently, the library can process 31 wildlife re-identification datasets. Its main feature is an interface for downloading and extracting datasets and converting them into a unified format. For full functionality see documentation.
Biosphere - Terrestrial Wildlife
- Jupyter Notebook
Published by sadda about 1 year ago
