Cross-modal learning for plankton recognition

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.16427v1
• Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:04:52 GMT
• Title: Cross-modal learning for plankton recognition
• Abstract summary: This paper considers self-supervised cross-modal coordination as a strategy enabling utilization of multiple modalities for plankton recognition.<n>We show that the proposed method achieves high recognition accuracy while requiring only a minimal number of labeled images.
• Score: 7.782757108520769
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: This paper considers self-supervised cross-modal coordination as a strategy enabling utilization of multiple modalities and large volumes of unlabeled plankton data to build models for plankton recognition. Automated imaging instruments facilitate the continuous collection of plankton image data on a large scale. Current methods for automatic plankton image recognition rely primarily on supervised approaches, which require labeled training sets that are labor-intensive to collect. On the other hand, some modern plankton imaging instruments complement image information with optical measurement data, such as scatter and fluorescence profiles, which currently are not widely utilized in plankton recognition. In this work, we explore the possibility of using such measurement data to guide the learning process without requiring manual labeling. Inspired by the concepts behind Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training, we train encoders for both modalities using only binary supervisory information indicating whether a given image and profile originate from the same particle or from different particles. For plankton recognition, we employ a small labeled gallery of known plankton species combined with a $k$-NN classifier. This approach yields a recognition model that is inherently multimodal, i.e., capable of utilizing information extracted from both image and profile data. We demonstrate that the proposed method achieves high recognition accuracy while requiring only a minimal number of labeled images. Furthermore, we show that the approach outperforms an image-only self-supervised baseline. Code available at https://github.com/Jookare/cross-modal-plankton.

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