I'm interested in automated algae identification using neural networks. I need compose substantial micro photography dataset of algae generas (most significant of Cyanobacteria, Chlorophyta and Bacillariophyta).
Thank you in advance!
UTEX Culture Collection of Algae has images for most of their strains
NORDIC MICROALGAE, CYANODB, ANSP ALGAE IMAGE DB, ALGAEVISION ETC ARE ALL VERY GOOD in addition to what @Matthew B Paddock has alluded.
Dear Krystyna Puzich,
Look the link, maybe helpful.
Article A computerized image database for freshwater algae recorded in Turkey
http://www.algalweb.net/algweb2.htm
Regards,
Shafagat
One of the largest collections of microphotographs with bibliographic data is in Windermare UK and in Poland in Krakow, Department of Phycology, W. Szafer Institute of Botany PAS https://www.botany.pl/index.php/pl/.
With best wishes,
Konrad W.
All groups: http://galerie.sinicearasy.cz/galerie/
Diatoms: https://diatoms.org/
Desmids: http://www.digicodes.info/
Black and white microscopy photos from the Imaging FlowCytobot might also help, particularly for diatoms - https://github.com/hsosik/WHOI-Plankton. Dataset download is available through a citable DOI at this link.
Cyanos could be find using following link: http://kpabg.ru/cyanopro/
In addition to those mentioned above, www.boldsystems.org may also be worth trying. For example, there are 29,348 public specimen records of rhodophytes, 6,657 public records of chlorophytes, 3,072 public records of diatoms etc. Some portion of them includes pictures for sure.
Automated alge identification using neural networks is a great idea. I played with it few year ago as well :-).
Besides sources mentioned in previous answers https://atlasofcyanobacteria.com/index.php coud be another one.
In general, it is necessary to have reliable and double-verified identifications of micrographs used for machine learning.
I would be a bit cautious with mixing natural material images and photos of cultures, which may look quite different.
Good luck!
the best site for cyanobacteria is cyanoDB2
http://botanika.prf.jcu.cz/cyanodb/
Data on Cyanos can be found in http://www.cyanodb.cz/
Season's Greetings!
Anila P Ajayan
I hope this link can help you https://github.com/hsosik/WHOI-Plankton
I would not recommend the dataset suggested by Ihab Alfadhel without being carefuly curated (I looked at part of 2014 dataset and substantial number of micrographs is not determined well or are highly unsuitable for machine learning.
Please check the unique Fritsch Collection contains floristic information and illustrates the diverse views that have been or are still, held about the identification and taxonomy of worldwide freshwater & terrestrial algae.
http://www.fritschalgae.info/about-fritsch-collection;
and Iconotheca of algae at the W. Szafer Institute of Botany PAS, Department of Phycology. I hope these addresses will be helpful.
All the best K.W.
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