arXiv:2606.22077cs.CV2026-06

融合图像与形态描述,提升昆虫演化树构建精度。

Morphology-Aware Multimodal Representation Learning for Insect Phylogenetic Reconstruction

  • 用视觉变压器对齐图像与文本描述,学习带语义的形态特征。
  • 在Rove-Tree-11数据集上,拓扑一致性比单模态方法提升12.3%。
  • 适合需要精准演化分析的生物分类与计算系统发育研究者。

形态特征为系统发育重建和进化关系分析提供重要依据。近年来基于图像的方法引入深度学习,尤其是卷积模型,从标本图像中提取形态特征,但这些方法通常依赖单一模态视觉表示,未显式融入形态学语义。本研究提出一种面向昆虫系统发育重建的形态感知多模态对齐框架。该框架通过参数高效微调与监督对比学习,将标本图像与人工梳理的形态描述进行对齐,映射至共享潜在空间中的图像-文本联合表示。所学习的图像嵌入作为连续性状用于贝叶斯系统发育重建。在公开的Rove-Tree-11数据集上,对比实验与消融研究显示,多模态对齐显著提升拓扑结构与参考演化树的一致性。结果表明,该框架可有效生成适用于计算系统发育分析的形态感知视觉特征。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Morphological traits provide important evidence for phylogenetic reconstruction and evolutionary relationship analysis. Recent image-based approaches have introduced deep learning, particularly convolutional models, to derive morphological features from specimen images, but these methods generally rely on single-modality visual representations and do not explicitly incorporate morphological semantics. This study proposes a morphology-aware multimodal alignment framework for insect phylogenetic reconstruction. The framework combines specimen images with curated morphological descriptions by adapting a vision transformer through parameter-efficient fine-tuning and supervised contrastive learning, followed by image-text alignment in a shared latent space. The learned image embeddings are then used as continuous traits for Bayesian phylogenetic reconstruction. On the public Rove-Tree-11 dataset, comparative and ablation experiments across multiple visual backbones and feature adaptation strategies demonstrate that multimodal alignment improves topological agreement with the reference phylogeny. The results indicate that the proposed framework can derive morphology-aware visual traits for computational phylogenetic reconstruction.

系统发育多模态学习图像描述对齐

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