What is it about?
This work is about how to count mosquitos in the wild, e.g. in the forests of Thailand. We use small-size hardware to "listen" to the wingbeat of mosquitos and Deep Learning to identify whether the sound is coming from a mosquito and which species of mosquitos (not all are equally relevant for mosquito-borne diseases like Dengue or Malaria).
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Why is it important?
It is essential to count mosquitos continuously and exactly at the place they develop and live, for example, around lakes and rivers or in the forest. In this way, the public health authorities can identify the relevant places and take countermeasures, like fogging or removing the open water containers.
Perspectives
Our next steps include a better way to attract mosquitos so that the microphones can sense them at all. Then, we plan to install several of these traps in relevant locations for prolonged periods of time and access the mosquito vectors.
Prof. Dr. Anna Förster
University of Bremen
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This page is a summary of: Counting Mosquitoes in the Wild, September 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3462203.3475914.
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