David William Johnston

Conference NeurIPS Imageomics Workshop 2025 · December 6, 2025 Computer vision can accelerate ecological research and conservation monitoring, yet adoption in ecology lags in part because of a lack of trust in black-box neural-network-based models. We seek to address this challenge by applying post-hoc explanations to ... Link to item Cite

New Remote Sensing Approaches for Investigating the Submesoscale Structure and Biology of Frontal Eddies in the Gulf Stream

Conference · March 24, 2021 Full text Link to item Cite

Control surface-body size relationships in baleen whale species

Conference INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY · March 2021 Link to item Cite

From Feast Mode to Least Mode: How Lunge Filter Feeding Biomechanics Constrain Rorqual Foraging Ecology Across Scale

Conference INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY · March 2020 Link to item Cite

Acoustic response of Hawaiian spinner dolphins to human disturbance

Conference Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics · July 10, 2016 Hawaiian spinner dolphins display predictable daily behavior, using shallow bays to rest during the daytime. The frequency and intensity of the interactions between humans and dolphins in these bays has prompted concern for the animals. All previous resear ... Full text Cite

Photorealistic Inpainting for Perturbation-based Explanations in Ecological Monitoring

Conference Ecological monitoring is increasingly automated by vision models, yet opaque predictions limit trust and field adoption. We present an inpainting-guided, perturbation-based explanation technique that produces photorealistic, mask-localized edits that prese ... Link to item Cite