Biolens

Models

Dragonlens
Floralens
Lepilens
Mothlens

About

Biolens is a web application for the automatic identification of biological species based on photos classified using deep learning models.

Currently available models can be used to identify Portuguese species of dragonflies and damselflies (Dragonlens), flora (Floralens), butterflies (Lepilens), and moths (Mothlens).

An earlier version of the Lepilens model is also used by the Lepilens iOS app (to be updated in the near future in regard to Lepilens and other models).

Authors

Biolens has been developed by Luís Lopes and Eduardo R. B. Marques, both professors at DCC/FCUP and members of CRACS / INESC-TEC, jointly with students Tomás Mamede, Miguel Marques, Manuel Coutinho, and António Filgueiras. Tomás Mamede is also the developer of the Lepilens iOS app.

Publications

News articles

Model derivation and training images

The Biolens models were trained using cloud services generously provided through the Google Cloud research credits program.

Training images taken were mostly sampled from:

Complementary training photos for the Lepilens model were taken from Lepidoptera Portugal Facebook group, Lusoborboletas, Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa, Butterflies in Hungary, Lepidoptera and their ecology, Lepiforum, euroButterflies, Butterflies of France, and UK Butterflies.

Personal acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the generous feedback and help of Albano Soares, Eduardo Marabuto, Ernestino Maravalhas, Henrique Alves, Miguel Porto, and Pedro Pires.

Biolens DCC / FCUP & CRACS / INESC-TEC