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Study Measures 14 Input Resolutions for Bird ID on Edge Devices
A new arXiv paper treats input resolution as a tunable design choice rather than a fixed setting when identifying distant birds, which appears only tens of pixels wide, to reduce bird strikes at wind farms. The authors run a factorial experiment across 14 image side lengths and six neural network architectures, recording latency directly on an edge device. The work reports how accuracy and on-device inference cost trade off across those configurations.