Please join iDigBio and experts from our community for a two-part virtual showcase highlighting advancements at the leading edge of digital media creation (2D, 3D, video, acoustic recordings, etc.) and use in the context of biodiversity collections research.
The first showcase (25 March) will focus on the media data creation. Topics will include advances in imaging techniques, equipment, software, workflows, and more.
The second (10 June) will focus on downstream use of media data. Topics of interest will include: media access, media archiving, and data standards important to improve the interoperability of data for A.I., AR/VR, and other uses.
Part One - focus on media generation
March, 25, 2024
Hosted by iDigBio and the Florida Museum of Natural History
To view recordings and the agenda from the first webinar, visit the event's wiki page.
Click Here to Register for Part Two - focus on downstream use of digital media
June 10 & 11th, 2024
Hosted by iDigBio and the Yale Peabody Museum
Day 1, June 10th: Virtual Showcase Highlighting AI and Digitization Considerations to Optimize use of data
Topics include: Rapid specimen digitization, Storage, Management, and Sharing, Information ecosystems/pipeline, Linking traits
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9:00 EDT |
Morning Welcome |
Nelson Rios |
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9:10 |
Multi-view text detection for LightningBug |
Mark Hereld, Senior Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory |
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9:20 |
Virtual Label Reconstruction for LightningBug |
Nicola Ferrier, Senior Computer Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory |
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9:30 |
Multi-modal imaging for next-generation heritage science |
Hugo Reyes-Centeno, Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky |
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9:30 |
Q&A |
Whole Group |
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9:50 |
Preserving and Sharing Museum CT Scans at an Institutional Data Repository |
Peter Cerda, Associate Librarian, Data Curation Specialist, University of Michigan |
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10:00 |
Let the Records Show: Attribution of Scientific Credit in Natural History Collections |
Rebecca Dikow, Director of Computational Methods and Data, Yale Library |
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10:10 |
MorphoSource: A Community 3D Data Repository for Representational Media |
Julie Winchester, Technical Director, MorphoSource 3D Data Repository, Duke University |
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10:20 |
Q&A |
Whole Group |
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10:40 |
Interoperability of Information Ecosystems: Envisioning Collaboration between Biodiversity Informatics, Remote Sensing, and Ecology |
Kit Lewers, PhD Student, University of Colorado Boulder |
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10:50 |
Increasing Accessibility to museum digital collections |
Ed Stanley, Florida Museum of Natural History |
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11:00 |
Recent advancements in the Audiovisual Core standard for biodiversity multimedia |
Steve Baskauf, Data Science and Data Curation Specialist, Vanderbilt University (retired) |
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11:10 |
Q&A |
Whole Group |
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11:30 |
Expanding LeafMachine2: new training data, models, and methods for processing herbarium specimens |
Will Weaver, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan |
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11:40 |
Large-scale, research-ready herbarium trait extraction with confidence-based deep-learning |
Quentin Bateux, Postdoctoral Associate, Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies |
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11:50 |
Challenges linking traits and harmonization for big data research |
Rob Guralnick, Curator of Biodiveristy Informatics, Florida Museum of Natural History |
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12:00 |
Q&A |
Whole Group |
Day 2, June 11: Virtual Showcase Highlighting Innovative Technologies for downstream data use
Topics include: Harmonizing data for research, Innovation, Big Data, Non-conventional technologies to promote research and increase visibility
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9:00 EDT |
Welcome back |
Austin Mast |
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9:10 |
Image Informatics for Metadata Extraction and Verification of Museum Specimen Images |
David E. Breen, Professor of Computer Science, Drexel University |
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9:20 |
FishAIR as a model system for AI-Readiness and skipping the data pre-processing |
Yasin Bakış, Sr Manager of Biodiversity Informatics and Data Science, Tulane University |
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9:30 |
Knowledge-guided Machine Learnring for Discovering Biological Traits from Images |
Anuj Karpatne, Associate Professor of Compute Science, Virginia Tech |
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9:40 |
Extracting phenological information from specimen images |
Daijiang Li, Assistant Professor, LSU |
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9:50 |
Q&A |
Whole Group |
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10:10 |
IIIF: Standards, Communities, and Tools for Sharing High-Quality Attributed Digital Objects at Scale |
Julie Winchester, Technical Director, MorphoSource 3D Data Repository, Duke University |
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10:20 |
An AI infrastructure for Natural History collections |
Arthur Porto, Curator of AI, Florida Museum |
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10:30 |
Mapping out phenotypic diversity in a large family of butterflies |
Moritz Lürig, Postdoctoral Researcher |
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10:40 |
A link between biomedical and natural history research |
Matteo Fabbri (remote), Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University |
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10:50 |
AI Based 3D Modeling Methods Capture Complex Subjects in Uncontrolled Environments |
Alex Adkinson, Researcher, Florida State University, iDigBio |
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11:00 |
Q&A |
Whole Group |
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11:20 |
The 'museum philosophy', digitization, and the Macaulay Library |
Glenn Seeholzer, Curator, Macaulay Library, Cornell Lab of Ornithology |
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11:30 |
Data Sharing Policies and Considerations Must Influence Machine Learning Research Directions in Ecological Applications |
Neha Hulkund, PhD student, Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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11:40 |
Enabling Novel Scientific Discovery With Multimodal AI |
Eddie Vendrow, PhD student, Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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11:50 |
Q&A |
Whole Group |
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12:10 |
From fossils to footsteps: reconstructing dinosaur locomotion with computer animation |
Armita Manafzadeh, Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies |
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12:20 |
Recent Advances in 3D modelling – Machine learning, Morphometrics and Conservation tools |
Duncan Irschik, Professor, UMASS Amherst |
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12:30 |
Using Specimen Media and Machine Learning for Research and Engagement |
Mike Webster |
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12:40 |
Q&A |
