A new method for the recognition of day instar of adult silkworms using feature fusion and image attention mechanism

Identifying the day instar of silkworms is a fundamental task for precision rearing and behavioral analysis. This study proposes a new method for identifying the day instar of adult silkworms based on deep learning and computer vision. Images from the first day of instar 3 to the seventh day of instar 5 were photographed using a mobile phone, and a dataset containing 7, 000 images was constructed. An effective recognition network, called …