There are 1500 images of mosquitoes gathered by researchers. They want to build a app that tracks insects.

Technology 25 July 2022

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Swatted dead mosquito

Even if a mosquito has been swatted, it may be possible for an artificial intelligence to identify it.

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Artificial intelligence trained to recognise both living and dead mosquitoes could be used to track down the mosquitoes that transmit diseases.

The mosquito is more likely to kill people than any other animal. The use of artificial intelligence to identify different mosquito species would make it easier to track their presence around the world, but it would require a lot of images of mosquitoes.

Three volunteers were recruited by Song-Quan and his colleague to help them look at mosquitoes. The researchers took pictures of the mosquitoes after they landed and after they were killed.

Volunteers were bitten by mosquitoes before they were killed. We want to create images that are similar to reality.

Half of the mosquitoes that were alive and half of the ones that were splatted were taken.

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Two different artificial intelligences were trained to recognise mosquitoes on human skin. Around 80% of the time, the better-performing artificial intelligence could guess the correct species. People can use the app to identify mosquitoes and researchers can use the app to track insects.

Automatic identification of mosquitoes is one of the efforts that have been made. A research group trained an artificial intelligence to classify mosquitoes based on sex, species, and strain from all over the world. An artificial intelligence was trained to identify 67 different types of mosquitoes. The latest one could be combined with each one's own.

The University of Rhode Island's Jannelle Couret believes that the more images of mosquitoes the better.

The scientific data is in the journal.

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