Kimberly A. Watson's research while affiliated with New York Botanical Garden and other places
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Publications (2)
Herbarium sheets present a unique view of the world's botanical history, evolution, and biodiversity. This makes them an all–important data source for botanical research. With the increased digitization of herbaria worldwide and advances in the domain of fine–grained visual classification which can facilitate automatic identification of herbarium s...
The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium of The New York Botanical Garden has been digitizing specimens since 1995. At first, digitization included only specimen label data transcription, but specimen imaging was added in 1999. Over the years, computer technology has changed greatly, and consequently so have the hardware, software and workflow for ac...
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... The iNaturalist dataset [11,12] for large-scale species classification also offers a hierarchical organization, albeit with a simpler two-level hierarchy consisting of superclasses ("Insects", "Fungi", "Plants", etc.) and finer classes. On the other hand, the Herbarium 2021 Half-Earth Challenge Dataset [13] for species recognition features a challenging real-world image classification task. The dataset includes more than 2.5 million images of vascular plant specimens representing 64,500 taxonomic labels. ...
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... To improve the availability and access to information on natural history specimens, it is necessary to promote the digitization of specimen information as metadata. Specimens in natural history museums and herbaria are increasingly being digitized all around the world [5][6][7][8][9] , and a simple, budget-friendly and efficient way of scanning specimens has been developed 10,11 . However, until now, data entry has been done manually by professional taxonomists, part-time workers or volunteers who are (more or less) familiar with the names of organisms, places, and collectors. ...
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