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Image recognition for collections: identifying specimens and museum objects

From 2019 to 2022, Naturalis Biodiversity Center worked with several Dutch museums to develop image recognition models trained on photos of specimens and objects: butterflies, bird eggs, cone shells, ray and shark egg cases, and…

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Update · November 7, 2026

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