Digital Automated Identification System

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Digital automated identification system (DAISY)
DeveloperMark A. O'Neill
Stable release
2.1.0 / February 1, 2016; 10 years ago (2016-02-01)
Repository
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Written inC[citation needed]
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    Operating systemLinux
    PlatformIA-32 x86-64 ARM
    Available inEnglish
    LicenseProprietary commercial software
    Websitewww.tumblingdice.co.uk/daisy

    Digital automated identification system (DAISY) is an automated species identification system optimised for the rapid screening of invertebrates (e.g. insects) by non-experts (e.g. parataxonomists).

    It was developed by Dr. Mark O'Neill during the mid-1990s. Development was supported by funding from the Darwin Initiative in 1997[1] and BBSRC.[2] The intellectual property rights were acquired by O'Neill's company, Tumbling Dice Ltd, in February 2000[3] at the end of the grant funded Darwin Project. The system underwent further development resulting in an producing an exemplar which is web accessible and which can cope in near real time with groups (e.g. hawk moths) which contain several hundred taxa. On medium to high end PC server hardware (e.g. a blade server) an identification is possible in under a second for a 300 taxon group. Parallelisation of the critical DAISY classifier codes (using either bespoke FPGA technology or general purpose GPU programming technology such as CUDA) will give an order of magnitude increase in performance. This means that DAISY can be deployed to make real time identifications within groups containing thousands of taxa (e.g. true flies).

    DAISY results for selected insect taxa
    taxon image type structure training images species success(%)
    Belize Sphingidae RGB wing 705 58 97
    Xylophanes sp. RGB wing 543 30 99
    Parasitic wasps mono wing 559 47 95
    UK butterflies RGB wing 818 57 98
    UK macro moths RGB wing 744 37 98
    Caterpillars RGB head 91 7 93
    Caterpillars RGB body 508 10 99
    Soft fruit pests RGB body 2634 23 91
    DAISY results for other image classification tasks
    description image type structure training images classes success(%)
    Food cans RGB label 31 5 100
    Industrial objects RGB unposed object 155 14 100
    Foraminifera tests RGB unposed object 198 8 95
    Pollen grains RGB unposed object 6601 12 99
    Spiders mono genitalia 102 6 91
    Human faces mono unposed face 400 41 99

    DAISY has been used in several research projects by O'Neill[4] and others, and featured in popular science TV and magazine articles. The project has also been the subject of a recent article in Science.[5]

    In 2011, the first DAISY installation capable of scaling to hundreds of taxa was installed at Natural History Museum in London. This server offered both VNC and web service based interfaces and was able to offload compute intensive pattern matching operations onto an NVIDIA GPU programmed using CUDA. This installation was capable of providing identification to species given a 300+ taxon dataset in less than a second in a multiple user environment.

    More recently, under the aegis of Innovate UK funding, DAISY has been extensively modified to meet the needs of upstream activities within the oil and gas sector, in particular biostratigraphy. The resultant system, GeoDAISY represents a significant technological advance. It is capable of deep learning, knowledge encapsulation, pattern based data mining and (image based) content search and can efficiently handle training sets consisting of millions of patterns on commodity hardware using a combination of smart data caching and OpenMP. Further details of GeoDAISY, and the rationale for developing it are available as white papers on the Tumbling Dice LinkedIn page.

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