Smithsonian Butterfly Images with Scientific Name Metadata

Comprising high-resolution images of butterflies sourced from the Smithsonian Institution's Education and Outreach and National Museum of Natural History Entomology Department collections. It includes metadata such as the scientific name of each butterfly, though some values may be missing, and is intended for tasks like multi-label image classification.

Use Cases

• Train a multi-label image classification model using butterfly images and their associated scientific name labels.
• Analyze the distribution of butterfly species based on the scientific name metadata within the Smithsonian collections.
• Use the high-resolution images and scientific name data for fine-grained visual recognition of butterfly species.

Strengths

• High-resolution images sourced from the authoritative Smithsonian Institution collections.
• Includes expert-generated scientific name annotations for butterfly species.
• Dataset size is categorized as between 1,000 and 10,000 instances.

Limitations

• The scientific name metadata contains missing values, which may impact supervised learning tasks.
• The specific geographic origin of the butterfly specimens is not detailed in the provided metadata.
• The dataset's last update was in July 2022, which may limit temporal relevance for some applications.

Provenance

Source

Smithsonian Institution Education and Outreach & NMNH - Entomology Dept. collections.

Collection Method

Crawled from the source collections.

Freshness

Last updated on 2022-07-13.

Geography

Region is indicated as 'us', but specific specimen geography is unknown.