About

Hi! I am a second-year PhD student at Lappeenranta University of Technology, supervised by Tuomas Eerola. I work on machine learning methods for fine-grained classification, particularly for applications in plankton recognition. I previously graduated from a double degree master program between LUT University and Università della Svizzera Italiana. In my free time, I like to do sports, especially bouldering.

Updates

  • July 2025
    Attended the International Computer Vision Summer School (ICVSS 2025) in Sicily!


  • Apr 2025
    Paper accepted to CVPR 2025 workshop!


  • Aug 2024
    Paper accepted to ECCV 2024 workshop!


  • Aug 2024
    Attended ML for Atmospheric Science Summer School


  • July 2024
    Started PhD position

Research

Journal Articles & Conference Papers

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Self-Supervised Pretraining for Fine-Grained Plankton Recognition

Joona Kareinen, Tuomas Eerola, Kaisa Kraft, Lasse Lensu, Sanna Suikkanen, Heikki Kälviäinen

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CVPR 2025, FGVC12 workshop

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Open-Set Plankton Recognition

Joona Kareinen, Annaliina Skyttä, Tuomas Eerola, Kaisa Kraft, Lasse Lensu, Sanna Suikkanen, Maiju Lehtiniemi, Heikki Kälviäinen

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ECCV 2024, OOD-CV workshop

Theses

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Open-set plankton detection

Joona Kareinen, Tuomas Eerola, Ernst C. Wit

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Master's Thesis

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User interface for Saimaa ringed seal re-identification

Joona Kareinen, Ekaterina Nepovinnykh, Tuomas Eerola

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Bachelor's Thesis

Teaching

Courses

3D Computer Vision (Spring 2025)

LUT University

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Numerical Methods (Spring 2023)

LUT University

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Mathematics III (Spring 2022)

LUT University

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Differential Calculation (Fall 2021)

LUT University

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Basics of University Mathematics (Fall 2020)

LUT University

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