papers/zoo-citizen-science/sections/11-future-work.tex

\section{Future Work}

\label{sec:future}
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\begin{enumerate}
  \item \textbf{Audio observations}: Integrating BirdNET-style acoustic
    identification for birds, bats, and insects, enabling passive
    monitoring through placed smartphones.

  \item \textbf{AR field guides}: Augmented reality overlays showing
    species information, diagnostic features, and similar species when
    the camera is pointed at an organism.

  \item \textbf{Federated learning}: Training improved AI models on
    distributed user data without centralizing images, preserving
    privacy while improving identification accuracy.

  \item \textbf{Ecological network inference}: Using co-occurrence
    patterns in citizen science data to infer species interaction
    networks (pollination, predation, parasitism).

  \item \textbf{Real-time alerts}: Pushing alerts to nearby users
    when rare or range-expanding species are detected, enabling rapid
    confirmation and documentation.

  \item \textbf{School integration}: Curriculum-aligned challenges for
    K-12 science education, connecting biodiversity monitoring to
    formal learning outcomes.
\end{enumerate}


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