no code implementations • 26 Mar 2024 • Hager Radi Abdelwahed, Mélisande Teng, David Rolnick
To address this task, we propose a general model, R-Tran, for predicting species occurrence patterns that enables the use of partial observational data wherever found.
1 code implementation • 2 Nov 2023 • Mélisande Teng, Amna Elmustafa, Benjamin Akera, Yoshua Bengio, Hager Radi Abdelwahed, Hugo Larochelle, David Rolnick
The wide availability of remote sensing data and the growing adoption of citizen science tools to collect species observations data at low cost offer an opportunity for improving biodiversity monitoring and enabling the modelling of complex ecosystems.
no code implementations • 1 May 2023 • Mélisande Teng, Amna Elmustafa, Benjamin Akera, Hugo Larochelle, David Rolnick
Climate change is a major driver of biodiversity loss, changing the geographic range and abundance of many species.
2 code implementations • ICLR 2022 • Victor Schmidt, Alexandra Sasha Luccioni, Mélisande Teng, Tianyu Zhang, Alexia Reynaud, Sunand Raghupathi, Gautier Cosne, Adrien Juraver, Vahe Vardanyan, Alex Hernandez-Garcia, Yoshua Bengio
Climate change is a major threat to humanity, and the actions required to prevent its catastrophic consequences include changes in both policy-making and individual behaviour.
no code implementations • 26 Jan 2020 • Gautier Cosne, Adrien Juraver, Mélisande Teng, Victor Schmidt, Vahe Vardanyan, Alexandra Luccioni, Yoshua Bengio
In our paper, we explore the potential of using images from a simulated 3D environment to improve a domain adaptation task carried out by the MUNIT architecture, aiming to use the resulting images to raise awareness of the potential future impacts of climate change.