Publications

Comprehensive list from Semantic Scholar (Last updated October 26, 2026). More information on GAIEA Lab projects can be found on the Projects page.


Automated mask generation in citizen science smartphone photos and their value for mapping plant species in drone imagery. Salim Soltani, Lauren E. Gillespie, Moises Exposito-Alonso, O. Ferlian, N. Eisenhauer, Hannes Feilhauer, T. Kattenborn. Biogeosciences. (2025) DOI: 10.5194/bg-22-6545-2025

DivShift: Exploring Domain-Specific Distribution Shifts in Large-Scale, Volunteer-Collected Biodiversity Datasets. Elena Sierra, Lauren E. Gillespie, Salim Soltani, Moises Exposito-Alonso, T. Kattenborn. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. (2024) DOI: 10.1609/aaai.v39i27.35060

Contrastive ground-level image and remote sensing pre-training improves representation learning for natural world imagery. A. Huynh, Lauren E. Gillespie, Jael Lopez-Saucedo, Claire Tang, Rohan Sikand, Moises Exposito-Alonso. European Conference on Computer Vision. (2024) DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2409.19439

Deep learning models map rapid plant species changes from citizen science and remote sensing data. Lauren E. Gillespie, Megan Ruffley, Moisés Expósito-Alonso. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. (2024) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2318296121