Summary of Clibd: Bridging Vision and Genomics For Biodiversity Monitoring at Scale, by Zeming Gong et al.
CLIBD: Bridging Vision and Genomics for Biodiversity Monitoring at Scale
by ZeMing Gong, Austin T. Wang, Xiaoliang Huo, Joakim Bruslund Haurum, Scott C. Lowe, Graham W. Taylor, Angel X. Chang
First submitted to arxiv on: 27 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This research introduces a novel multimodal approach that combines photographic images, barcode DNA, and text-based representations of taxonomic labels to measure biodiversity. The method uses contrastive learning to align these modalities in a unified embedding space, enabling accurate classification of known and unknown insect species without task-specific fine-tuning. This fusion of DNA and image data surpasses previous single-modality approaches by over 8% in zero-shot learning tasks, highlighting the potential of this method for biodiversity studies. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research combines two different ways to identify insects – looking at pictures and reading DNA codes. It makes a special computer model that can look at both types of information together, which helps it correctly identify insects even if it’s never seen them before. This is important because knowing how many different kinds of insects are in an ecosystem can help us understand its overall health. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Classification » Embedding space » Fine tuning » Zero shot
