Title
Data Enrichment in Fine-Grained Classification of Aquatic Macroinvertebrates
Abstract
The types and numbers of benthic macroinvertebrates found in a water body reflect water quality. Therefore, macroinvertebrates are routinely monitored as a part of freshwater ecological quality assessment. The collected macroinvertebrate samples are identified by human experts, which is costly and time-consuming. Thus, developing automated identification methods that could partially replace the human effort is important. In our group, we have been working toward this goal and, in this paper, we improve our earlier results on automated macroinvertebrate classification obtained using deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). We apply simple data enrichment prior to CNN training. By rotations and mirroring, we create new images so as to increase the total size of the image database sixfold. We evaluate the effect of data enrichment on Caffe and MatConvNet CNN implementations. The networks are trained either fully on the macroinvertebrate data or first pretrained using ImageNet pictures and then fine-tuned using the macroinvertebrate data. The results show 3-6% improvement, when the enriched data are used. This is an encouraging result, because it significantly narrows the gap between automated techniques and human experts, while it leaves room for future improvements as even the size of the enriched data, about 60000 images, is small compared to data sizes typically required for efficient training of deep CNNs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/CVAUI.2016.020
2016 ICPR 2nd Workshop on Computer Vision for Analysis of Underwater Imagery (CVAUI)
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
ImageNet pictures,MatConvNet CNN,CNN training,deep convolutional neural networks,automated macroinvertebrate classification,freshwater ecological quality assessment,aquatic macroinvertebrates,fine-grained classification,data enrichment
Conference
978-1-5090-5871-6
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
7
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jenni Raitoharju13714.25
Ekaterina Riabchenko200.34
Kristian Meissner300.34
Iftikhar Ahmad415627.06
Alexandros Iosifidis584172.43
Moncef Gabbouj63282386.30
Serkan Kiranyaz775061.15