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ArticlePloS one2021

Automatic ladybird beetle detection using deep-learning models.

Pablo Venegas, Francisco Calderon, Daniel Riofrío, Diego Benítez, Giovani Ramón, Diego Cisneros-Heredia, Miguel Coimbra, José Luis Rojo-Álvarez, Noel Pérez

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Article in PloS one, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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9 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Pablo VenegasColegio de Ciencias e Ingenierías "El Politécnico", Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador.
Francisco CalderonColegio de Ciencias e Ingenierías "El Politécnico", Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador.
Daniel RiofríoColegio de Ciencias e Ingenierías "El Politécnico", Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador.ORCID 0000-0001-9815-2659
Diego BenítezColegio de Ciencias e Ingenierías "El Politécnico", Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador.
Giovani RamónMuseo de Zoología, Instituto iBIOTROP & Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales COCIBA, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador.
Diego Cisneros-HerediaMuseo de Zoología, Instituto iBIOTROP & Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales COCIBA, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador.ORCID 0000-0002-6132-2738
Miguel CoimbraINESC TEC, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
José Luis Rojo-ÁlvarezDepartment of Signal Theory and Communications and Telematic Systems and Computation, Rey Juan Carlos University, Fuenlabrada, Spain.
Noel PérezColegio de Ciencias e Ingenierías "El Politécnico", Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador.ORCID 0000-0003-3166-745X
Universidad San Francisco de Quito · ECUniversidade do Porto · PTUniversidad Rey Juan Carlos · ES

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fast and accurate taxonomic identification of invasive trans-located ladybird beetle species is essential to prevent significant impacts on biological communities, ecosystem functions, and agricultural business economics. Therefore, in this work we propose a two-step automatic detector for ladybird beetles in random environment images as the first stage towards an automated classification system. First, an image processing module composed of a saliency map representation, simple linear iterative clustering superpixels segmentation, and active contour methods allowed us to generate bounding boxes with possible ladybird beetles locations within an image. Subsequently, a deep convolutional neural network-based classifier selects only the bounding boxes with ladybird beetles as the final output. This method was validated on a 2, 300 ladybird beetle image data set from Ecuador and Colombia obtained from the iNaturalist project. The proposed approach achieved an accuracy score of 92% and an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.977 for the bounding box generation and classification tasks. These successful results enable the proposed detector as a valuable tool for helping specialists in the ladybird beetle detection problem.

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AlgorithmsAnimalsColeopteraColombiaDeep LearningEcuadorIntroduced SpeciesNeural Networks, ComputerPattern Recognition, Automated

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