# SEEK-CBM: Editable and Interpretable Retrieval for Elephant Re-Identification

**CV4Animals @ CVPR 2026**

*6th Workshop on CV4Animals: Computer Vision for Animal Behavior Tracking and Modeling, in conjunction with CVPR 2026*

Antoine Salaün, **Vaibhav Balloli**, Timm Haucke, Elizabeth Bondi-Kelly, Sara Beery

## Summary

SEEK-CBM upgrades CHAIR to modern vision architectures and self-supervised techniques to achieve a 497% improvement in performance.

## Links

- PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JuWRW6SlzewdU0gJTEZdoZT7_-kp_Ntl/view
- Project: https://realize-lab.github.io/CHAIR
- Code: https://github.com/realize-lab/CHAIR
- Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czo5YQU4-WY

## Topics

vision, social-impact

## Builds on

https://profile.vballoli.com/papers/chair/

## Citation

```bibtex
@inproceedings{seekcbm2026salaun,
  title     = {{SEEK}-{CBM}: Editable and Interpretable Retrieval for Elephant Re-Identification},
  author    = {Sala{\"u}n, Antoine and Balloli, Vaibhav and Haucke, Timm and Bondi-Kelly, Elizabeth and Beery, Sara},
  booktitle = {6th Workshop on CV4Animals: Computer Vision for Animal Behavior Tracking and Modeling, in conjunction with CVPR 2026},
  year      = {2026}
}
```

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