---
task_categories:
- image-classification
- image-segmentation
tags:
- fish
- traits
- processed
- RGB
- biology
- image
- animals
- CV
pretty_name: Fish-Vista
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
language:
- en
configs:
- config_name: species_classification
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: classification_train.csv
  - split: test
    path: classification_test.csv
  - split: val
    path: classification_val.csv
- config_name: species_trait_identification
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: identification_train.csv
  - split: test_insp
    path: identification_test_insp.csv
  - split: test_lvsp
    path: identification_test_lvsp.csv
  - split: val
    path: identification_val.csv
- config_name: trait_segmentation
  data_files:
  - "segmentation_data.csv"
  - "segmentation_masks/images/*.png"
---

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# Dataset Card for Fish-Visual Trait Analysis (Fish-Vista)

## Dataset Details

### Dataset Description

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The Fish-Visual Trait Analysis (Fish-Vista) dataset is a large, annotated collection of 60K fish images spanning 1900 different species; it supports several challenging and biologically relevant tasks including species classification, trait identification, and trait segmentation. These images have been curated through a sophisticated data processing pipeline applied to a cumulative set of images obtained from various museum collections. Fish-Vista provides fine-grained labels of various visual traits present in each image. It also offers pixel-level annotations of 9 different traits for 2427 fish images, facilitating additional trait segmentation and localization tasks.

The Fish Vista dataset consists of museum fish images from [Great Lakes Invasives Network (GLIN)](https://greatlakesinvasives.org/portal/index.php), [iDigBio](https://www.idigbio.org/), and [Morphbank](https://www.morphbank.net/) databases. We acquired these images, along with associated metadata including the scientific species names, the taxonomical family the species belong to, and licensing information, from the [Fish-AIR repository](https://fishair.org/). 

|![Figure 1](https://huggingface.co./datasets/imageomics/fish-vista/resolve/main/metadata/figures/FishVista.png)|
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|**Figure 1.** A schematic representation of the different tasks in Fish-Vista Dataset. |

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### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
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|**Figure 2.** Comparison of the fine-grained classification performance of different imbalanced classification methods. |

|![Figure 3](https://huggingface.co./datasets/imageomics/fish-vista/resolve/main/metadata/figures/IdentificationOriginalResults.png)|
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|**Figure 3.** Trait identification performance of different multi-label classification methods. |


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### Languages

English

## Dataset Structure

```
/dataset/
    segmentation_masks/
        annotations/
        images/
    Images/
        chunk_1
          filename 1
          filename 2
          ...
          filename 10k
        chunk_2
          filename 1
          filename 2
          ...
          filename 10k
        .
        .
        .
        chunk_6
          filename 1
          filename 2
          ...
          filename 10k
    ND_Processing_Files
    download_and_process_nd_images.py
    classification_train.csv
    classification_test.csv
    classification_val.csv
    identification_train.csv
    identification_test.csv
    identification_val.csv
    segmentation_data.csv
    segmentation_train.csv
    segmentation_test.csv
    segmentation_val.csv
    metadata/
        figures/
            # figures included in README
        data-bib.bib
```

### Instructions for downloading dataset
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* Install [Git LFS](https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/working-with-files/managing-large-files/installing-git-large-file-storage)
* Git clone the fish-vista repository
  * Run the following commands in a **terminal**:
```bash
git clone https://huggingface.co./datasets/imageomics/fish-vista
cd fish-vista
```
* Run the following commands to move all chunked images to a single directory:
```bash
mkdir AllImages
find Images -type f -exec mv -v {} AllImages \;
rm -rf Images
mv AllImages Images
```

  * You should now have all the images in the *Images* directory

* Run the following commands to download and process copyrighted images 
```bash
python download_and_process_nd_images.py --save_dir Images
```
  * This will download and process the CC-BY-ND images that we do not provide in the *Images* folder

### Data Instances

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* **Species Classification (FV-419):** `classification_<split>.csv`
  * Approximately 48K images of 419 species for species classification tasks.
  * There are about 35K training, 7.6K test, and 5K validation images.

* **Trait Identification (FV-682):** `identification_<split>.csv`
  * Approximately 53K images of 682 species for trait identification based on _species-level trait labels_ (i.e., presence/absence of traits based on trait labels for the species from information provided by [Phenoscape]() and [FishBase](https://www.fishbase.se/)).
  * About 38K training, 8K `test_insp` (species in training set), 1.9K `test_lvsp` (species not in training), and 5.2K validation images.
  * Train, test, and validation splits are generated based on traits, so there are 628 species in train, 450 species in `test_insp`, 51 species in `test_lvsp`, and 451 in the validation set (3 species only in val). 

* **Trait Segmentation (FV-1200):** `segmentation_<split>.csv` 
  * Pixel-level annotations of 9 different traits for 2,427 fish images.
  * About 1.7k training, 600 test and 120 validation images for the segmentation task
  * These are also used as manually annotated test set for Trait Identification.

* **All Segmentation Data:** `segmentation_data.csv` 
  * Essentially a collation of the trait segmentation splits
  * Used for evaluating trait identification on the entire FV-1200


* **Image Information**
  * **Type:** JPG
  * **Size (x pixels by y pixels):** Variable
  * **Background (color or none):** Uniform (White)


### Data Fields

CSV Columns are as follows:

- `filename`: Unique filename for our processed images.
- `source_filename`: Filename of the source image. Non-unique, since one source filename can result in multiple crops in our processed dataset.
- `original_format`: Original format, all jpg/jpeg.
- `arkid`: ARKID from FishAIR for the original images. Non-unique, since one source file can result in multiple crops in our processed dataset.
- `family`: Taxonomic family
- `source`: Source museum collection. GLIN, Idigbio or Morphbank
- `owner`: Owner institution within the source collection.
- `standardized_species`: Open-tree-taxonomy-resolved species name. This is the species name that we provide for Fish-Vista
- `original_url`: URL to download the original, unprocessed image
- `file_name`: Links to the image inside the repository. Necessary for HF data viewer. Not to be confused with `filename`
- `license`: License information for the original image
- `adipose_fin`: Presence/absence of the adipose fin trait. NA for the classification (FV-419) dataset, since it is only used for identification. 1 indicates presence and 0 indicates absence. This is used for trait identification.
- `pelvic_fin`: Presence/absence of the pelvic trait. NA for the classification (FV-419) dataset, since it is only used for identification. 1 indicates presence and 0 indicates absence. This is only used for trait identification.
- `barbel`: Presence/absence of the barbel trait. NA for the classification (FV-419) dataset, since it is only used for identification. 1 indicates presence and 0 indicates absence. This is used for trait identification.
- `multiple_dorsal_fin`: Presence/absence of the dorsal fin trait. NA for the classification (FV-419) dataset, since it is only used for identification. 1 indicates presence, 0 indicates absence and -1 indicates unknown. This is used for trait identification.

**Note:**


### Data Splits

For each task (or subset), the split is indicated by the CSV name (e.g., `classification_<split>.csv`). More information is provided in [Data Instances](#data-instances), above.
      
## Dataset Creation

### Curation Rationale
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Fishes are integral to both ecological systems and economic sectors, and studying fish traits is crucial for understanding biodiversity patterns and macro-evolution trends.
Currently available fish datasets tend to focus on species classification. They lack finer-grained labels for traits. When segmentation annotations are available in existing datasets, they tend to be for the entire specimen, allowing for segmenation of background, but not trait segmentation. 
The ultimate goal of Fish-Vista is to provide a clean, carefully curated, high-resolution dataset that can serve as a foundation for accelerating biological discoveries using advances in AI.


### Source Data

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Images and taxonomic labels were aggregated by [Fish-AIR](https://fishair.org/) from 
- [Great Lakes Invasives Network (GLIN)](https://greatlakesinvasives.org/portal/index.php)
- [iDigBio](https://www.idigbio.org/)
- [Morphbank](https://www.morphbank.net/)
- [Illinois Natural History Survey (INHS)](https://biocoll.inhs.illinois.edu/portal/index.php)
- [Minnesota Biodiversity Atlas, Bell Museum](https://bellatlas.umn.edu/index.php)
- [University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ), Division of Fishes](https://ipt.lsa.umich.edu/resource?r=ummz\_fish)
- [University of Wisconsin-Madison Zoological Museum - Fish](http://zoology.wisc.edu/uwzm/)
- [Field Museum of Natural History (Zoology, FMNH) Fish Collection](https://fmipt.fieldmuseum.org/ipt/resource?r=fmnh_fishes)
- [The Ohio State University Fish Division, Museum of Biological Diversity (OSUM), Occurrence dataset](https://doi.org/10.15468/subsl8)

[Phenoscape](https://kb.phenoscape.org/about/phenoscape/kb) and [FishBase](https://www.fishbase.se/search.php) were used to provide the information on traits at the species level.

[Open Tree Taxonomy](https://tree.opentreeoflife.org/) was used to standardize the species names provided by Fish-AIR.


#### Data Collection and Processing
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|![Figure 4](https://huggingface.co./datasets/imageomics/fish-vista/resolve/main/metadata/figures/DataProcessingPipelineFishVista.png)|
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|**Figure 4.** An overview of the data processing and filtering pipeline used to obtain Fish-Vista. |

We carefully curated a set of
60K images sourced from various museum collections through [Fish-AIR](https://fishair.org/), including [Great Lakes Invasives Network (GLIN)](https://greatlakesinvasives.org/portal/index.php), [iDigBio](https://www.idigbio.org/), and [Morphbank](https://www.morphbank.net/).
Our pipeline incorporates rigorous stages such as duplicate removal, metadata-driven filtering, cropping, background removal using the [Segment Anything Model (SAM)](https://github.com/facebookresearch/segment-anything), and a final
manual filtering phase. Fish-Vista supports several biologically meaningful tasks such as species
classification, trait identification, and trait segmentation. 



### Annotations
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Ex: We standardized the taxonomic labels provided by the various data sources to conform to a uniform 7-rank Linnean structure. (Then, under annotation process, describe how this was done: Our sources used different names for the same kingdom (both _Animalia_ and _Metazoa_), so we chose one for all (_Animalia_). -->

#### Annotation process
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[Phenoscape](https://kb.phenoscape.org/about/phenoscape/kb) and [FishBase](https://www.fishbase.se/search.php) were used to provide the information on species-level traits (the species-trait matrix).

[Open Tree Taxonomy](https://tree.opentreeoflife.org/) was used to standardize the species names provided by Fish-AIR.

Image-level trait segmentations were manually annotated as described below.

The annotation process for the segmentation subset was led by Wasila Dahdul. She provided guidance and oversight to a team of three people from [NEON](https://www.neonscience.org/about), who used [CVAT](https://zenodo.org/records/7863887) to label nine external traits in the images. These traits correspond to the following terms for anatomical structures in the UBERON anatomy ontology:
1. Eye, [UBERON_0000019](http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0000019)
2. Head, [UBERON_0000033](http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0000033)
3. Barbel, [UBERON_2000622](http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_2000622)
4. Dorsal fin, [UBERON_0003097](http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0003097)
5. Adipose fin, [UBERON_2000251](http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_2000251)
6. Pectoral fin, [UBERON_0000151](http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0000151)
7. Pelvic fin, [UBERON_0000152](http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0000152)
8. Anal fin, [UBERON_4000163](http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_4000163)
9. Caudal fin, [UBERON_4000164](http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_4000164)


### Personal and Sensitive Information

None

## Considerations for Using the Data

### Discussion of Biases and Other Known Limitations

- This dataset is imbalanced and long tailed 
- It inherits biases inherent to museum images
- Train sets may contain noisy images (in very small numbers)



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## Licensing Information
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Be sure to note different licensing of images if they have a different license from the compilation.
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The data (images and text) contain a variety of licensing restrictions mostly within the CC family. Each image and text in this dataset is provided under the least restrictive terms allowed by its licensing requirements as provided to us (i.e, we impose no additional restrictions past those specified by licenses in the license file).

EOL images contain a variety of licenses ranging from [CC0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) to [CC BY-NC-SA](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).
For license and citation information by image, see our [license file](https://huggingface.co./datasets/imageomics/treeoflife-10m/blob/main/metadata/licenses.csv).

This dataset (the compilation) has been marked as dedicated to the public domain by applying the [CC0 Public Domain Waiver](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). However, images may be licensed under different terms (as noted above).
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The source images in our dataset come with various licenses, mostly within the Creative Commons family. We provide license and citation information, including the source institution for each image, in our metadata CSV files available in the HuggingFace repository. Additionally, we attribute each image to the original FishAIR URL from which it was downloaded.

A small subset of our images (approximately 1k) from IDigBio are licensed under CC-BY-ND, which prohibits us from distributing processed versions of these images. Therefore, we do not publish these 1,000 images in the repository. Instead, we provide the URLs for downloading the original images and a processing script that can be applied to obtain the processed versions we use.

Our dataset is licensed under [CC-BY-NC 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.en). However, individual images within our dataset may have different licenses, which are specified in our CSV files.

## Citation
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**BibTeX:**

**Data**
```
@misc{mehrab2024fishvista,
      title={Fish-Vista: A Multi-Purpose Dataset for Understanding & Identification of Traits from Images}, 
      author={Kazi Sajeed Mehrab and M. Maruf and Arka Daw and Harish Babu Manogaran and Abhilash Neog and Mridul Khurana and Bahadir Altintas and Yasin Bakis and Elizabeth G Campolongo and Matthew J Thompson and Xiaojun Wang and Hilmar Lapp and Wei-Lun Chao and Paula M. Mabee and Henry L. Bart Jr. au2 and Wasila Dahdul and Anuj Karpatne},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2407.08027},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.08027}, 
}
```
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**Paper**
```
@article{<ref_code>,
  title    = {Fish-Vista: A Multi-Purpose Dataset for Understanding \& Identification of Traits from Images},
  author   = {Kazi Sajeed Mehrab and M. Maruf and Arka Daw and Harish Babu Manogaran and Abhilash Neog and Mridul Khurana and Bahadir Altintas and Yasin Bakış and Elizabeth G Campolongo and Matthew J Thompson and Xiaojun Wang and Hilmar Lapp and Wei-Lun Chao and Paula M. Mabee and Henry L. Bart Jr. and Wasila Dahdul and Anuj Karpatne},
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Please be sure to also cite the original data sources using the citations provided in [metadata/data-bib.bib](https://huggingface.co./datasets/imageomics/fish-vista/blob/main/metadata/data-bib.bib).



## Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the [Imageomics Institute](https://imageomics.org), which is funded by the US National Science Foundation's Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR) program under [Award #2118240](https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2118240) (Imageomics: A New Frontier of Biological Information Powered by Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning). Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
We would like to thank Shelley Riders, Jerry Tatum, and Cesar Ortiz and for segmentation data annotation.
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## Glossary 

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## More Information 

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## Dataset Card Authors 

Kazi Sajeed Mehrab and Elizabeth G. Campolongo

## Dataset Card Contact

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 ksmehrab@vt.edu