WHAT THE EVIDENCE SAYS
A vision model trained on 3,355 images from 122 trackplates for 11 species averaged 89.2% accuracy with five-fold cross-validation grouped by trackplate.
WHY IT MATTERS / OUR READ
The next test is performance across new substrates, weather, sites and species, not a larger internal accuracy score.
CAVEATS / UNCERTAINTY
Grouped internal cross-validation is not an independent field deployment or validated rare-species absence survey. Accepted Oct 27; final formatting pending.
SOURCE
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution — Liske et al. (accepted 27 Oct 2026)
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