Deep Learning, Biogeography, and the Evolution of Plant Shapes

Alex White (NMNH & Data Science Lab, Smithsonian Institution) The Yale-Smithsonian Partnership presents: Machine Vision for Cultural Heritage & Natural Science Collections The mass digitization of visual collections, on the order of hundreds of thousands or millions of images, creates new challenges for curators and researchers alike. Simultaneously, the rapid pace of industry innovation in deep learning (from guiding self-driving cars to captioning smartphone images) demands the attention of library, muse