- Yaniv Ovadia
- Yoni Halpern
- Dilip Krishnan
- Daniel Newburger
- Ryan Poplin
- D. Sculley
Abstract
Mosquito-borne illnesses such as dengue, chikungunya, and Zika are major global health problems, which are not yet addressable with vaccines and must be countered by reducing mosquito popula- tions. The Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) is a promising alternative to pesticides; however, effective SIT relies on minimal releases of female insects. This paper describes a multi-objective convolutional neural net to significantly streamline the process of counting male and female mosquitoes released from a SIT factory and provides a statistical basis for verifying strict contamination rate limits from these counts despite measurement noise. These results are a promis- ing indication that such methods may dramatically reduce the cost of effective SIT methods in practice.
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