Asger Svenning
@asgersvenning.com
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Ph.D. student in Applied Biology, Ecoscience, Aarhus University. Interests in conservation, biodiversity informatics, scalable analyses, deep learning etc. Naturalist by heart, enjoying botanizing and hiking in my free time.
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Not entirely sure of the species, but definitely an umbellifer/Apiaceae of some kind.

There are many great species for pollinators within it depending on where you live, such as wild carrot (D. carota) or Ammi majus (which the plant in the image may be) or many others.
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Dataset: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Big thanks to my co-authors: Quentin Geissmann, Guillaume Mougeot, Toke T Høye, Juli Carrillo, Jamie Alison, Daphne Chevalier, Kim Bjerge, Nisa Molina, and Song-Quan Ong, as well as everyone else who contributed with data or annotations.
flatbug-dataset a compilation of dataset of terrestrial arthropodes on various surfaces
This dataset is a compilation of 23 datasets all individually described in their respective DOI entry. The complete dataset was used to train "flatbug" a generalist instance segmentation algorithm tha...
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Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We introduce flatbug—an easy-to-use, versatile tool for detecting and segmenting insects and arthropods from many types of images. The tool aims to accelerate insect biodiversity monitoring, laboratory experiments and ecological studies.
A General Method for Detection and Segmentation of Terrestrial Arthropods in Images
To better understand the status and trends of insects and other arthropods, emerging technologies like image recognition are developing rapidly. This is creating a strong demand for efficient and accu...
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I am excited to share that my first first-author paper, “A General Method for Detection and Segmentation of Terrestrial Arthropods in Images,” is now available on preprint.

If you are interested take a look at my blog (asgersvenning.com/flat-bug/) or consider reading the pre-print (linked below).