Congrats to PhD student Melika Baghooee for publishing her preprint (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...)! Looking forward to receiving feedback on our approach that proposes using explicit size in computer vision models to classify insects better :)
You may have heard of MegaDetector 🐅
What about a MiniDetector? 🪰
In my opinion flatbug is the closest thing we have to a universal insect detector.
Open source and free to use.
Amazing & groundbreaking work lead by @asgersvenning.bsky.social & @qgeissmann.bsky.social
Well done for all the work! This will be very useful for the community! Also always a pleasure to work with @tokehoye.bsky.social, @jamiealison.bsky.social and the others :)
I am excited to share that my first first-author paper, “A General Method for Detection and Segmentation of Terrestrial Arthropods in Images,” is now available on preprint.
If you are interested take a look at my blog (asgersvenning.com/flat-bug/) or consider reading the pre-print (linked below).
@tokehoye.bsky.social @jamiealison.bsky.social @tomaugust.bsky.social
Aarhus Comprehensive Computational Entomology Summer School (ACCESS-2025). Learn how to develop and apply novel technologies to insect ecology. *Deadline April 15th* for this fully funded (through @insectai.bsky.social) opportunity! More on darsa.info/ACCESS-2025/
🚨WEBINAR ALERT🚨(free)
The #insect monitoring toolbox includes a suite of #sensors for automated data collection.
But what can they achieve?
Find out next Friday with fascinating talks from
@drolnick.bsky.social, Emily Bick, Mikkel Brydegaard & Eva Knop
wildlabs.net/event/automa...
Immensely proud of MSc student Daphne Chevalier ( darsa.info/people/auto-...) co-supervised by Juli Carrillo, in UBC for her outstanding defence today. I am very impressed by how Daphne bridged engineering and ecology to study how Artificial Light At Night affects arthropods!
Another starter pack of fine fine folks - New PIs! We're all figuring it out together! Please do (self-)nominate
go.bsky.app/KJXNgfZ
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