Automated species identification: why not?
Automated species identification: why not?
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自动物种鉴定：为什么不？
DOI：
10.1098/rstb.2003.1442
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发表时间：
2004-04-29
影响因子：
6.3
通讯作者：
O'Neill, MA
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作者：
Gaston, KJ;O'Neill, MA
在可能的情况下，自动化一直是人类对许多必须重复多次的活动的共同反应。以前描述的物种标本的常规鉴定具有许多其他已自动化的活动的特征，并对纯生物学和应用生物学的许多领域的研究构成了重大限制。在本文中，我们考虑了一些原因，为什么自动物种识别还没有得到广泛应用，以及它是否是一个现实的选择，解决的概念，它是太困难，太危险，太不同或太昂贵。虽然认识到，有一些非常真实的技术障碍有待克服，我们认为，在自动物种识别的发展是非常令人鼓舞的，这种方法有可能作出宝贵的贡献，以减少日常识别的负担。在可能实现的目标方面，目前的远见和进取心可能比实际的制约因素更具限制性。
Where possible, automation has been a common response of humankind to many activities that have to be repeated numerous times. The routine identification of specimens of previously described species has many of the characteristics of other activities that have been automated, and poses a major constraint on studies in many areas of both pure and applied biology. In this paper, we consider some of the reasons why automated species identification has not become widely employed, and whether it is a realistic option, addressing the notions that it is too difficult, too threatening, too different or too costly. Although recognizing that there are some very real technical obstacles yet to be overcome, we argue that progress in the development of automated species identification is extremely encouraging that such an approach has the potential to make a valuable contribution to reducing the burden of routine identifications. Vision and enterprise are perhaps more limiting at present than practical constraints on what might possibly be achieved.