ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IDENTIFICATION OF MICROFOSSILS FROM THE LOWER CAMBRIAN KUCHUANPU FORMATION IN SOUTHERN SHAANXI,CHINA
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Abstract:
The early Cambrian Kuachuanpu Formation in south Shaanxi, China is well known for phosphatized small shelly fossils and metazoan embryo fossils, thus it is a critical window for investigating the origin of metazoans and Cambrian explosion. Finding the valuable specimens among numerous microfossils is quite low in efficiency based on the manually selecting under the microscope, thus we developed a method of machine learning and artificial intelligence for recognition and classification of microfossils. We have acquired more than 5 000 images of major taxa from the Kuanchuanpu Formation and reached a high precision rate in image processing and fossil recognition.
