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Scout: Open-World Species Recognition on the Edge

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 19, 2026 · UTC

Large vision-language models (VLMs) enable recognition beyond a fixed class set, but their computational demands prevent them from running on many edge devices. Cloud offload makes this capability accessible, but sending every image consumes scarce bandwidth and communication energy. We ask how to bring the open-world recognition capability of VLMs to the edge while operating within tight compute, energy, and bandwidth budgets. Wildlife monitoring provides a natural setting for exploring this question because camera traps encounter species not known at deployment. We present Scout, an autonomo

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