Towards real-time monitoring of insect species populations
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Venverloo, Titus; Duarte, Fábio
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Insect biodiversity and abundance are in global decline, potentially leading to a crisis with profound ecological and economic consequences. Methods and technologies to monitor insect species to aid in preservation efforts are rapidly being developed yet their adoption has been slow and focused on specific use cases. We propose a computer vision model that works towards multi-objective insect species identification in real-time and on a large scale. We leverage an image data source with 16 million instances and a recent improvement in the YOLO computer vision architecture to present a quick and open-access method to develop visual AI models to monitor insect species across climatic regions.
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2024Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and PlanningJournal
Scientific Reports
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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Venverloo, T., Duarte, F. Towards real-time monitoring of insect species populations. Sci Rep 14, 18727 (2024).
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