Code and data
Source and access
Relevancy to Gratheon
Although InsectDCT targets pollinators and other insects rather than only hive footage, it is directly reusable for Gratheon's field monitoring because honey bees and bumble bees are explicit taxonomy classes. Hierarchical classification is particularly valuable when image quality does not support species-level certainty: the system can still return a defensible family or genus-level label instead of forcing an unreliable prediction.
The motion-enhanced detector, track-level visitation summaries, diverse public datasets, and Raspberry Pi deployment path offer practical components for entrance-observer and pollination-monitoring prototypes. They also provide a strong benchmark for testing whether Gratheon's models generalize across vegetation backgrounds, camera types, insect sizes, and deployment sites.