Insect-Foundation: A Foundation Model and Large-scale 1M Dataset for Visual Insect Understanding

arXiv:2311.15206v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: In precision agriculture, the detection and recognition of insects play an essential role in the ability of crops to grow healthy and produce a high-quality yield. The current machine vision model requires a large volume of data to achieve high performance. However, there are approximately 5.5 million different insect species in the world. None of the existing insect datasets can cover even a fraction of them due to varying geographic locations and acquisition costs. In …

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