09:00–09:10 Welcome, Organizing Committee
09:10–09:40 Keynote 1
Speaker: Dagmar Kainmüller, MDC-Berlin
Talk: The Aquatic Life Foundation Project: Quantifying Life at Scale in a Changing World
09:45–10:15 Oral Session 1
Oral 1: Short-Dwell Aerial Wave Sensing over Coastal Waters: Feasibility, Observability, and Failure Modes
Oral 2: A Multi-Annotator Study of Segmentation Noise and Uncertainty in Turbid Underwater Images
10:15–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–11:30 Keynote 2
Speaker: Sara Beery, MIT
Talk: Targeting Human Verification for Robust Deployment of AI in Ecology
11:30–12:00 Oral Session 2
Oral 3: WildFin: An In-the-Wild Video Dataset for Fish Behavioral Recognition
Oral 4: CoralscapesV2: Panoptic and Fine-Grained Visual Scene Understanding in Coral Reefs
12:00–13:30 Lunch Break
13:30–14:00 Keynote 3
Speaker: Olaya Álvarez-Tuñón, EIVA A/S
Talk: Uncertainty-Aware monocular Visual Odometry: Robust perception in noisy underwater environments
14:00–14:30 Keynote 4
Speaker: Manu Prakash, Stanford
Talk: TBD
14:30–14:45 Stretch Your Legs
14:45–15:15 Oral Session 3
Oral 5: Selective Cross-Modal Alignment for Fish Re-Identification via Partial Optimal Transport
Oral 6: Searching for Submarine O13: A Two-Step Classification and Similarity-Ranking Model for Submarine Identification in Sonar Imagery.
15:15–16:00 Coffee Break
16:00–16:30 Lightning Talks
Pre-poster session
16:30-16:35 Best poster announcement
16.35-16.40 Best paper announcement
16:40-16:45 Final remarks
16:45-18:00 Poster Session