Researchers have developed an AI system that can identify flies from blue traps and accurately estimate their population size. The AI system, which is based on deep learning algorithms, can quickly and accurately identify individual flies from images of blue traps—a method used by entomologists to monitor the population size of flies. The researchers found that the AI system was able to identify over 90 percent of the flies in the images with very few errors. The system also had a very low false positive rate—only about 1 percent—which indicates that it was able to identify flies that were not in the images. This is the first AI system of its kind that can accurately identify and estimate the population size of flies. It has the potential to revolutionize the way entomologists monitor fly populations in the future.

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source: Phys.org