Life in the fast lane: Revealing high-frequency plankton dynamics with multi-device imaging and open-set image classification (FASTVISION-plus)
Acronym
FASTVISION-plus
Description of the granted funding
Plankton community ecology and ecosystem research is currently hampered by the bottleneck of acquiring species-level information from the communities due to the slow analysis with traditional microscopy. The FASTVISION-plus consortium will combine front-line plankton imaging instrumentation and taxonomic expertise of the Finnish Environment Institute and the computer vision and image analysis excellence of the Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology. The project will use images of microscopic plankton provided by automated imaging instruments and other measurements to train image recognition software for species identification using multimodal machine learning approaches that produce interoperable data across instruments and habitats. This big data of plankton community composition, collected through experimental and field studies with an unprecedented high resolution, will be applied to testing key hypotheses in plankton community ecology, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.
Show moreStarting year
2021
End year
2025
Granted funding
Other information
Funding decision number
339355
Fields of science
Ecology, evolutionary biology
Research fields
Ekologia, evoluutiobiologia ja ekofysiologia
Identified topics
biodiversity, ecosystems