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New pipeline automates herbarium label digitization using AI

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Researchers have developed HERBIOME, an automated pipeline designed to digitize herbarium labels, making the rich metadata within these collections more accessible for ecological and evolutionary biology research. The pipeline integrates YOLOv8 for component detection, TrOCR for text recognition on mixed handwriting and print, and GPT-4o Mini for structuring semantic metadata. Evaluation on French herbarium specimens showed promising results in both surface similarity and semantic accuracy, though taxonomic fields remain a challenge. AI

IMPACT Enables large-scale biodiversity research and the creation of specialized image-text datasets for multimodal AI.

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New pipeline automates herbarium label digitization using AI

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 Italiano(IT) · Hiba Abbad, Hanane Ariouat, Eva Perez Pimpare, Nicolas Turenne, Eric Chenin, Abderrazak Sebaa, Edi Prifti, Jean-Daniel Zucker, Youcef Sklab ·

    Automated pipeline for herbarium label digitization

    arXiv:2608.28676v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Digitized herbarium collections, now comprising over 100 million freely accessible specimen images, have become a critical resource for addressing fundamental questions in ecology and evolutionary biology. Yet the rich metadata enco…

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