Addressing the open world: detecting and segmenting pollen on palynological slides with deep learning
Jennifer T. Feng, Sandeep Puthanveetil Satheesan, Shu Kong, Timme H. Donders, Surangi W. Punyasena
Fusing a small-grain expert detector, fine-tuning across microscopes, human-in-the-loop continual learning and zero-shot SAM-2 segmentation improve detection and isolation of fossil pollen on scanned slides.
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