Recognition of Rare Microfossils Using Transfer Learning and Deep Residual Networks

Various microfossils from the early Cambrian provide crucial clues for understanding the Cambrian explosion and the origin of animal phyla. However, specimens with important anatomical structures are extremely rare and the efficiency of retrieving such fossils by traditional manual selection under a...

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Published in:	Biology
Main Authors:	Bin Wang, Ruyue Sun, Xiaoguang Yang, Ben Niu, Tao Zhang, Yuandi Zhao, Yuanhui Zhang, Yiheng Zhang, Jian Han
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2022-12-01
Subjects:	early Cambrian microfossils small sample transfer learning residual network
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/12/1/16

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