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Aedes aegypti Egg Counting with Neural Networks for Object Detection

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Mar 12, 2024
Micheli Nayara de Oliveira Vicente, Gabriel Toshio Hirokawa Higa, João Vitor de Andrade Porto, Higor Henrique, Picoli Nucci, Asser Botelho Santana, Karla Rejane de Andrade Porto, Antonia Railda Roel, Hemerson Pistori

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Aedes aegypti is still one of the main concerns when it comes to disease vectors. Among the many ways to deal with it, there are important protocols that make use of egg numbers in ovitraps to calculate indices, such as the LIRAa and the Breteau Index, which can provide information on predictable outbursts and epidemics. Also, there are many research lines that require egg numbers, specially when mass production of mosquitoes is needed. Egg counting is a laborious and error-prone task that can be automated via computer vision-based techniques, specially deep learning-based counting with object detection. In this work, we propose a new dataset comprising field and laboratory eggs, along with test results of three neural networks applied to the task: Faster R-CNN, Side-Aware Boundary Localization and FoveaBox.

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