An Overview of Computer Vision in iNaturalist

By

Ueda, Ken-Ichi

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2020-10-1

Original Publication

Metabarcoding and metagenomics

Volume

4

Pages

1--1

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers 2017-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.4.59133

 

Abstract

iNaturalist is a social network of people who record and share observations of biodiversity. For several years, iNaturalist has been employing computer vision models trained on iNaturalist data to provide automated species identification assistance to iNaturalist participants. This presentation offers an overview of how we are using this technology, the data and tools we used to create it, challenges we have faced in its development, and ways we might apply it in the future.