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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Object Detection of Small Insects in Time-Lapse Camera Recordings.

Kim Bjerge, Carsten Eie Frigaard, Henrik Karstoft

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Kim BjergeDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aarhus University, 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0001-6742-9504
Carsten Eie FrigaardDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aarhus University, 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark.
Henrik KarstoftDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aarhus University, 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0003-3739-8983

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As pollinators, insects play a crucial role in ecosystem management and world food production. However, insect populations are declining, necessitating efficient insect monitoring methods. Existing methods analyze video or time-lapse images of insects in nature, but analysis is challenging as insects are small objects in complex and dynamic natural vegetation scenes. In this work, we provide a dataset of primarily honeybees visiting three different plant species during two months of the summer. The dataset consists of 107,387 annotated time-lapse images from multiple cameras, including 9423 annotated insects. We present a method for detecting insects in time-lapse RGB images, which consists of a two-step process. Firstly, the time-lapse RGB images are preprocessed to enhance insects in the images. This motion-informed enhancement technique uses motion and colors to enhance insects in images. Secondly, the enhanced images are subsequently fed into a convolutional neural network (CNN) object detector. The method improves on the deep learning object detectors You Only Look Once (YOLO) and faster region-based CNN (Faster R-CNN). Using motion-informed enhancement, the YOLO detector improves the average micro

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EcosystemInsectaAnimalsBeesFoodMotionTime-Lapse Imagingcamera recordingdeep learninginsect datasetmotion enhancementobject detection

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PMID37631778
PMCPMC10459366

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