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This paper investigates the feasibility of automated benthic macro-invertebrate taxon identification based on support vector machines and a novel gradient based feature. Biomonitoring can efficiently pinpoint subtle environmental changes and is therefore globally widely used in ecological status assessment. However, all biomonitoring is cost-intensive due to the expert work needed to identify organisms. To relieve this problem an automated image recognition system for benthic macro-invertebrate taxonomical analysis is proposed in this work. Using a novel approach, we present high accuracy classification results, suggesting that automated taxa recognition for benthic macro-invertebrates is viable. Our study indicates that automated image recognition techniques can match human taxonomic identification accuracy and greatly reduce the costs of future taxonomic analysis.
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Tirronen, V., Caponio, A., Haanpää, T., Meissner, K. (2009). Multiple Order Gradient Feature for Macro-Invertebrate Identification Using Support Vector Machines. In: Kolehmainen, M., Toivanen, P., Beliczynski, B. (eds) Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms. ICANNGA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5495. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04921-7_50
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