Hierarchical classification of very small objects: Application to the detection of arthropod species

Tresson Paul, Carval Dominique, Tixier Philippe, Puech William. 2021. Hierarchical classification of very small objects: Application to the detection of arthropod species. IEEE Access, 9 : 63925-63932.

https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3075293

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Résumé : Automated image analysis and deep learning tools such as object detection models are being used increasingly by biologists. However, biological datasets often have constraints that are challenging for the use of deep learning. Classes are often imbalanced, similar, or too few for robust learning. In this paper we present a robust method relying on hierarchical classification to perform very small object detection. We illustrate our results on a custom dataset featuring 22 classes of arthropods used to study biodiversity. This dataset shows several constraints that are frequent when using deep learning on biological data with a high class imbalance, some classes learned on only a few training examples and a high similarity between classes. We propose to first perform detection at a super-class level, before performing a detailed classification at a class level. We compare the obtained results with our proposed method to a global detector, trained without hierarchical classification. Our method succeeds in obtaining a mAP of 75 %, while the global detector only achieves a mAP of 48 %. Moreover, our method shows high precision even on classes with the less train examples. Confusions between classes with our method are fewer and are of a lesser impact. We are able achieve a more robust object classification with the use of our proposed method. This method can also enable better control on the model's output which can be particularly valuable when handling ecological, biological or medical data for example.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : biodiversité, classification, Arthropoda, traitement d'images, analyse d'image, traitement des données, apprentissage machine, analyse de réseau

Mots-clés complémentaires : petit objet

Mots-clés libres : Computer vision, Ecology, Convulational Neural Network

Classification Agris : U30 - Méthodes de recherche
L60 - Taxonomie et géographie animales

Champ stratégique Cirad : CTS 1 (2019-) - Biodiversité

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