Automated Pollen Recognition in Optical and Holographic Microscopy Images

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08589v1
• Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2025 13:31:02 GMT
• Title: Automated Pollen Recognition in Optical and Holographic Microscopy Images
• Authors: Swarn Singh Warshaneyan, Maksims Ivanovs, Blaž Cugmas, Inese Bērziņa, Laura Goldberga, Mindaugas Tamosiunas, Roberts Kadiķis,
• Abstract summary: This study explores the application of deep learning to improve and automate pollen grain detection and classification in both optical and holographic microscopy images.<n>We used YOLOv8s for object detection and MobileNetV3L for the classification task, evaluating their performance across imaging modalities.<n>The models achieved 91.3% mAP50 for detection and 97% overall accuracy for classification on optical images, whereas the initial performance on greyscale holographic images was substantially lower.
• Score: 0.1563562770254469
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: This study explores the application of deep learning to improve and automate pollen grain detection and classification in both optical and holographic microscopy images, with a particular focus on veterinary cytology use cases. We used YOLOv8s for object detection and MobileNetV3L for the classification task, evaluating their performance across imaging modalities. The models achieved 91.3% mAP50 for detection and 97% overall accuracy for classification on optical images, whereas the initial performance on greyscale holographic images was substantially lower. We addressed the performance gap issue through dataset expansion using automated labeling and bounding box area enlargement. These techniques, applied to holographic images, improved detection performance from 2.49% to 13.3% mAP50 and classification performance from 42% to 54%. Our work demonstrates that, at least for image classification tasks, it is possible to pair deep learning techniques with cost-effective lensless digital holographic microscopy devices.

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