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| author | Kareinen, Joona Eerola, Tuomas Kraft, Kaisa Lensu, Lasse Suikkanen, Sanna Kälviäinen, Heikki |
| author_facet | Kareinen, Joona Eerola, Tuomas Kraft, Kaisa Lensu, Lasse Suikkanen, Sanna Kälviäinen, Heikki |
| contents | Plankton recognition is an important computer vision problem due to plankton's essential role in ocean food webs and carbon capture, highlighting the need for species-level monitoring. However, this task is challenging due to its fine-grained nature and dataset shifts caused by different imaging instruments and varying species distributions. As new plankton image datasets are collected at an increasing pace, there is a need for general plankton recognition models that require minimal expert effort for data labeling. In this work, we study large-scale self-supervised pretraining for fine-grained plankton recognition. We first employ masked autoencoding and a large volume of diverse plankton image data to pretrain a general-purpose plankton image encoder. Then we utilize fine-tuning to obtain accurate plankton recognition models for new datasets with a very limited number of labeled training images. Our experiments show that self-supervised pretraining with diverse plankton data clearly increases plankton recognition accuracy compared to standard ImageNet pretraining when the amount of training data is limited. Moreover, the accuracy can be further improved when unlabeled target data is available and utilized during the pretraining. |
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| spellingShingle | Self-Supervised Pretraining for Fine-Grained Plankton Recognition Kareinen, Joona Eerola, Tuomas Kraft, Kaisa Lensu, Lasse Suikkanen, Sanna Kälviäinen, Heikki Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Plankton recognition is an important computer vision problem due to plankton's essential role in ocean food webs and carbon capture, highlighting the need for species-level monitoring. However, this task is challenging due to its fine-grained nature and dataset shifts caused by different imaging instruments and varying species distributions. As new plankton image datasets are collected at an increasing pace, there is a need for general plankton recognition models that require minimal expert effort for data labeling. In this work, we study large-scale self-supervised pretraining for fine-grained plankton recognition. We first employ masked autoencoding and a large volume of diverse plankton image data to pretrain a general-purpose plankton image encoder. Then we utilize fine-tuning to obtain accurate plankton recognition models for new datasets with a very limited number of labeled training images. Our experiments show that self-supervised pretraining with diverse plankton data clearly increases plankton recognition accuracy compared to standard ImageNet pretraining when the amount of training data is limited. Moreover, the accuracy can be further improved when unlabeled target data is available and utilized during the pretraining. |
| title | Self-Supervised Pretraining for Fine-Grained Plankton Recognition |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11341 |