ML Methods for Loc. and Class. of Insects in Images
Intro
During summer of 2021 I started having conversations with professors regarding my final thesis of my Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics. In that process I was introduced to the task of classifying insects based on images. I had the initial thought to write my thesis about a Machine Learning related topic and was more interested in Deep Reinforcement Learning at that time, but didn't put down the offer. After some time exploring RL I got frustrated by the advancement level and was more interested in simpler methods prior to starting a deep RL project. Hence in early November 2021 I aggreed to the topic "Machine Learning Methods for Localization and Classification of Insects in Images".
Alright, but how are we supposed to know wat you're talking about, if we have no idea what all these fancy big words mean?
Right.
Machine Learning
Machine Learning is a field of Mathematics and Computer Science where an algorithm get's a feed of input data to predict an desired output. This can be split into two groups of tasks, classification and regression whereas the former predicts fixed predefined classes based on an input and the latter a number of floating point numbers. I will give an example for each of those tasks once we covered a few more things. Frankly speaking ML is around for quite some time and things like logistic regression can solve most common tasks pretty well.
Logistical Regression
Logistical Regression is one form of regression. Regression works in general in such way that an input data
gets fit onto an predefined function, more speaking a predefined set of "trainable" variables, called weights
Honerable Mentions
Frequent Google Queries
A thesis doesn't write itself, nor can a developer work without it's helper Google. This section is dedicated to my beloved search terms which I accumulated while writing my thesis. One might think that repeating a question over and over again will teach the answer to the person asking,
| Search queries | Times performed |
|---|---|
| "Convert numpy array to PIL Image" | 7 |
| "Convert PIL Image to numpy array" | 4 |