AUTOMATIC HOVERFLY SPECIES DISCRIMINATION

Branko Brkljač, Marko Panić, Dubravko Ćulibrk, Vladimir Crnojević, Jelena Ačanski, Ante Vujić

2012

Abstract

An novel approach to automatic hoverfly species discrimination based on detection and extraction of vein junctions in wing venation patterns of insects is presented in the paper. The dataset used in our experiments consists of high resolution microscopic wing images of several hoverfly species collected over a relatively long period of time at different geographic locations. Junctions are detected using histograms of oriented gradients and local binary patterns features. The features are used to train an SVM classifier to detect junctions in wing images. Once the junctions are identified they are used to extract simple statistics concerning the distances of these points from the centroid. Such simple features can be used to achieve automatic discrimination of four selected hoverfly species, using a Multi Layer Perceptron (MLP) neural network classifier. The proposed approach achieves classification accuracy of environ 71%.

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Brkljač B., Panić M., Ćulibrk D., Crnojević V., Ačanski J. and Vujić A. (2012). AUTOMATIC HOVERFLY SPECIES DISCRIMINATION . In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 2: ICPRAM, ISBN 978-989-8425-99-7, pages 108-115. DOI: 10.5220/0003756601080115


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@conference{icpram12,
author={Branko Brkljač and Marko Panić and Dubravko Ćulibrk and Vladimir Crnojević and Jelena Ačanski and Ante Vujić},
title={AUTOMATIC HOVERFLY SPECIES DISCRIMINATION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 2: ICPRAM,},
year={2012},
pages={108-115},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003756601080115},
isbn={978-989-8425-99-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 2: ICPRAM,
TI - AUTOMATIC HOVERFLY SPECIES DISCRIMINATION
SN - 978-989-8425-99-7
AU - Brkljač B.
AU - Panić M.
AU - Ćulibrk D.
AU - Crnojević V.
AU - Ačanski J.
AU - Vujić A.
PY - 2012
SP - 108
EP - 115
DO - 10.5220/0003756601080115