Affiliation:
1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aarhus University, 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark
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 F1-score from 0.49 to 0.71, and the Faster R-CNN detector improves the average micro F1-score from 0.32 to 0.56. Our dataset and proposed method provide a step forward for automating the time-lapse camera monitoring of flying insects.
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Biochemistry,Instrumentation,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Analytical Chemistry
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