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Main Authors: Jain, Aditya, Cunha, Fagner, Bunsen, Michael, Pasi, Léonard, Viklund, Anna, Larrivée, Maxim, Rolnick, David
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13031
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author Jain, Aditya
Cunha, Fagner
Bunsen, Michael
Pasi, Léonard
Viklund, Anna
Larrivée, Maxim
Rolnick, David
author_facet Jain, Aditya
Cunha, Fagner
Bunsen, Michael
Pasi, Léonard
Viklund, Anna
Larrivée, Maxim
Rolnick, David
contents Climate change and other anthropogenic factors have led to a catastrophic decline in insects, endangering both biodiversity and the ecosystem services on which human society depends. Data on insect abundance, however, remains woefully inadequate. Camera traps, conventionally used for monitoring terrestrial vertebrates, are now being modified for insects, especially moths. We describe a complete, open-source machine learning-based software pipeline for automated monitoring of moths via camera traps, including object detection, moth/non-moth classification, fine-grained identification of moth species, and tracking individuals. We believe that our tools, which are already in use across three continents, represent the future of massively scalable data collection in entomology.
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spellingShingle A machine learning pipeline for automated insect monitoring
Jain, Aditya
Cunha, Fagner
Bunsen, Michael
Pasi, Léonard
Viklund, Anna
Larrivée, Maxim
Rolnick, David
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Climate change and other anthropogenic factors have led to a catastrophic decline in insects, endangering both biodiversity and the ecosystem services on which human society depends. Data on insect abundance, however, remains woefully inadequate. Camera traps, conventionally used for monitoring terrestrial vertebrates, are now being modified for insects, especially moths. We describe a complete, open-source machine learning-based software pipeline for automated monitoring of moths via camera traps, including object detection, moth/non-moth classification, fine-grained identification of moth species, and tracking individuals. We believe that our tools, which are already in use across three continents, represent the future of massively scalable data collection in entomology.
title A machine learning pipeline for automated insect monitoring
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13031