What Input Resolution Is Required for Bird Species Identification, and What Is Its Latency Cost on an Edge Device? A Study of 14 Input Resolutions and Six Architectures with On-Device Measurements
cs.CV · cs.LG · eess.IV
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Large 14-resolution × 6-architecture × 30-seed sweep with on-device Orin latency; rigorous and honest, but conclusions rest on one small raptor dataset.
Summary
This paper treats classifier input resolution N as a design variable for wind-farm bird-strike mitigation, where distant raptors span only tens of pixels. Using a factorial design — 14 side lengths (16–224), six architectures (MobileNetV4, EfficientNet-B0, ResNet50, ViT-S/16, DINOv2-L, DINOv3-L), two training regimes and 30 random seeds (2,520 models, 5,040 evaluations) — plus TensorRT latency measurements on a Jetson Orin Nano and an H200, the author derives deployment recommendations for six-way Japanese raptor identification (12,519 images). Selecting on validation, a 0.90 target is met by ResNet50 at N=112 (test 0.8980, estimated 1.85 ms on the deployment preprocessing path); 0.95 requires DINOv2-L at N=144 (test 0.9630, 12.70 ms). Retraining per resolution helps CNNs at low N (up to +47.8 points for ResNet50 at N=16) but hurts self-supervised ViT-L models above N=16. The latency benefit of lowering N depends critically on preprocessing assumptions: from N=224 to 80 the saving is 13.5% on a decode-per-file path versus 46.2% where the detector decodes the 4K frame once. ViT-L activations reach 3.6×10^5, exceeding the FP16 maximum, so an unsplit FP16 engine silently returns constant output; graph splitting that confines FP32 to affected segments restores correctness and runs 1.85× faster. Main limitations: a single citizen-science raptor dataset with mild group leakage across splits, latency figures assembled from separate measurements, and only two devices evaluated.
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Key claims under review
- For the six-raptor task, the selected configuration depends on target, candidate set, preprocessing path and precision assignment; among 84 base candidates the 0.90 validation target selects ResNet50 at N=112 (test 0.8980, estimated 1.85 ms) and 0.95 selects DINOv2-L at N=144 (test 0.9630, 12.70 ms).
- Resolution-native retraining improves CNN accuracy by 15–48 points at N≤48 but reduces accuracy for self-supervised ViT-L models at most evaluated resolutions above N=16, with directions stable across all 30 seeds in the stated ranges.
- GPU latency is nearly resolution-invariant (1.48–2.71× across a 196× pixel-count range), and the saving from N=224→80 is 46.2% on the deployment preprocessing path versus 13.5% on a file-decode evaluation path, so the common 'preprocessing floor' claim is path-specific.
- ViT-L activations (~3.6×10^5) exceed the FP16 limit of 65,504, making unsplit FP16 TensorRT engines silently incorrect (constant output, and faster than the correct build); splitting the graph and confining FP32 to affected segments restores correctness and is 1.85× faster than the unsplit FP32 engine.
Strengths
Exceptional scale with seed discipline
2,520 trained models across 30 seeds with zero failures (§3); §4 enumerates 4,060 k=3 and 142,506 k=5 subsets to show that seed unanimity misleads (3.1% of unanimous k=3 subsets disagree with the 30-seed mean pooled; up to 60.6% conditional per pair), explicitly distinguishing sign stability from hypothesis testing.
Preprocessing-path decomposition is decision-relevant
§5/Table 3 separates the offline decode-per-file path (4.6 ms resolution-independent floor; 13.5% saving from N=224→80) from the deployment path where the detector decodes the 4K frame once (46.2% saving), showing the common 'preprocessing floor' claim is path-specific; Pareto set shrinks from 23 to 20 on the offline path (§6.5).
Careful documentation of a silent FP16 failure mode
Honest selection protocol
Strong artifact transparency
Weaknesses
Single small dataset limits external validity
Split leakage near decision boundaries
Headline latency is an assembled estimate
Operational realism gaps
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Scope & Claims
This is an empirical edge-deployment study asking which classifier input side length N (16–224 px) best serves six-way Japanese raptor identification under latency constraints on an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano. The author claims four findings: (1) the selected configuration depends on the accuracy target, candidate set, preprocessing path and precision assignment — among 84 base candidates, a 0.90 validation target selects ResNet50 at N=112 (test 0.8980, estimated 1.85 ms), 0.95 selects DINOv2-L at N=144 (test 0.9630, 12.70 ms); (2) resolution-native retraining (regime B) helps CNNs (up to +47.8 points for ResNet50 at N=16, Table 1) but hurts self-supervised ViT-L models at most resolutions above N=16; (3) GPU latency is nearly resolution-invariant (1.48–2.71× across a 196× pixel range, Table 2) while the benefit of lowering N depends on the preprocessing path (13.5% vs 46.2% saving from N=224→80, Table 3); (4) ViT-L activations (~3.6×10^5) exceed the FP16 limit, so unsplit FP16 builds silently return constant output, and graph splitting confines FP32 to affected segments (1.85× faster, §7).
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Frequently asked questions
What input resolution is needed for bird species identification?
In this study of six Japanese raptor species (12,519 images), a 0.90 accuracy target was met on validation by ResNet50 at 112×112 input (test accuracy 0.8980, estimated 1.85 ms per classification on the deployment preprocessing path on a Jetson Orin Nano); a 0.95 target required DINOv2-L at N=144 (test 0.9630, 12.70 ms). Below N≈112, raising resolution added little accuracy for the 0.90 target.
Does lowering input resolution actually reduce edge inference time?
GPU compute on the Jetson Orin Nano changed by only 1.48–2.71× across a 196× input-pixel range, so the big lever is preprocessing assumptions: going from N=224 to N=80 saved 46.2% of classification time when the detector decodes the 4K frame once and the classifier only crops/resizes, but only 13.5% when each image is decoded from its own file, because a fixed ~4.6 ms decode+resize floor dominates.
Why do large ViT models fail in FP16 on Jetson devices?
DINOv2-L activations reach about 3.6×10^5, far above the FP16 maximum of 65,504. An unsplit FP16 TensorRT engine silently returned output independent of its input (1,881 of 1,882 test images shared identical logits) and even ran faster than the correct build, so latency alone cannot detect the failure. Splitting the graph at transformer-block boundaries and keeping FP32 only on affected segments restores correctness and is 1.85× faster than an all-FP32 unsplit engine.
Is the code and dataset from this paper available?
Yes. Aggregates, per-image predictions (4,172 files), both split rules and all analysis/training/measurement code are published on Zenodo (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22697995) with a GitHub mirror. Every table can be re-derived without images; retraining is only partially reproducible because images are not redistributed — 5,756 of 12,519 images (46%) have resolvable source URLs.
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