Automatic ladybird beetle detection using deep-learning models

• Pablo Venegas ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Pablo Venegas, Francisco Calderon, Noel Pérez

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Colegio de Ciencias e Ingenierías “El Politécnico”, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador

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• Francisco Calderon ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Pablo Venegas, Francisco Calderon, Noel Pérez

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Colegio de Ciencias e Ingenierías “El Politécnico”, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador

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• Daniel Riofrío ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Colegio de Ciencias e Ingenierías “El Politécnico”, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9815-2659

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• Diego Benítez ,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Colegio de Ciencias e Ingenierías “El Politécnico”, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador

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• Giovani Ramón ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Museo de Zoología, Instituto iBIOTROP & Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales COCIBA, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador

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• Diego Cisneros-Heredia ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Museo de Zoología, Instituto iBIOTROP & Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales COCIBA, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6132-2738

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• Miguel Coimbra ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation INESC TEC, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

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• José Luis Rojo-Álvarez ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Signal Theory and Communications and Telematic Systems and Computation, Rey Juan Carlos University, Fuenlabrada, Spain

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• Noel Pérez

  Contributed equally to this work with: Pablo Venegas, Francisco Calderon, Noel Pérez

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nperez@usfq.edu.ec

  Affiliation Colegio de Ciencias e Ingenierías “El Politécnico”, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3166-745X

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