Utilizing CNNs for classification and uncertainty quantification for 15 families of European fly pollinators

Thomas Stark; Michael Wurm; Valentin Ştefan; Felicitas Wolf; Hannes Taubenböck; Tiffany M. Knight

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0323984

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Utilizing CNNs for classification and uncertainty quantification for 15 families of European fly pollinators

Thomas Stark ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: thomas.stark@dlr.de

Affiliation German Aerospace Center (DLR), German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6166-7541

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Michael Wurm,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation German Aerospace Center (DLR), German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
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Valentin Ştefan,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Halle (Saale), Germany, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
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Felicitas Wolf,

Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Halle (Saale), Germany, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
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Hannes Taubenböck,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations German Aerospace Center (DLR), German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, Institute of Geography and Geology, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4360-9126

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Tiffany M. Knight

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Halle (Saale), Germany, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
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Utilizing CNNs for classification and uncertainty quantification for 15 families of European fly pollinators

Thomas Stark,
Michael Wurm,
Valentin Ştefan,
Felicitas Wolf,
Hannes Taubenböck,
Tiffany M. Knight

Published: September 10, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0323984

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