mAedesID: Android Application for Aedes Mosquito Species Identification using Convolutional Neural Network

Abstract: Vector-Borne Disease (VBD) is an infectious disease transmitted through the pathogenic female Aedes mosquito to humans and animals. It is important to control dengue disease by reducing the spread of Aedes mosquito vectors. Community awareness plays acrucial role to ensure Aedes control programmes and encourages the communities to involve active participation. Identifying the species of mosquito will help to recognize the mosquito density in the locality and intensifying mosquito control efforts in particular areas. This willhelp in avoiding Aedes breeding sites around residential areas and reduce adult mosquitoes. To serve this purpose, an android application are developed to identify Aedes species that help the community to contribute in mosquito control events. Several Android applications have been developed to identify species like birds, plant species, and Anopheles mosquito species. In this work, a user-friendly mobile application mAedesID is developed for identifying the Aedes mosquito species using a deep learning Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) algorithm which is best suited for species image classification and achieves better accuracy for voluminous images. The mobile application can be downloaded from the URLhttps://tinyurl.com/mAedesID.