Data and code release of Paying Attention to Other Animal Detections Improves Camera Trap Classification Models

Data and code release of: Paying Attention to Other Animal Detections Improves Camera Trap Classification Models Paper in open-access (Methods in Ecology and Evolution) : https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/2041-210x.70260 Code is available on GitHub : https://github.com/gdussert/MCA_Classifier and also archived in MCA_Classifier-code.zip This repository contains: * models: * crop_classifier.pt * mca_classifier.pt * data: * serengeti_train: training set of Snapshot Serengeti * serengeti_test: test set of Snapshot Serengeti * serengeti_toy: toy dataset to quickly test all the scripts, it contains only the pictures of Snapshot Serengeti camera trap location C12 * safari2024: whole Snapshot Safari 2024 Expansion dataset * crop_images.zip: crop images of Snapshot Serengeti camera trap location C12 * speciesnet.zip: SpeciesNet predictions for all images, as well as the script used to compute the accuracy reported in the manuscript. * code: * MCA_Classifier-code.zip Please cite our paper for the models: @article{dussert_paying_2026, author = {Dussert, Gaspard and Dray, Stéphane and Chamaillé-Jammes, Simon and Miele, Vincent}, title = {Paying attention to other animal detections improves camera trap classification models}, year = {2026}, url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/2041-210x.70260}, doi = {10.1111/2041-210x.70260}, journal = {Methods in Ecology and Evolution}, publisher={Wiley Online Library}} Please cite this paper for the Serengeti dataset: @article{swanson2015snapshot, title={Snapshot Serengeti, high-frequency annotated camera trap images of 40 mammalian species in an African savanna}, author={Swanson, Alexandra and Kosmala, Margaret and Lintott, Chris and Simpson, Robert and Smith, Arfon and Packer, Craig}, journal={Scientific data}, volume={2}, number={1}, pages={1--14}, year={2015}, publisher={Nature Publishing Group}}