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Saving earth’s biodiversity for future generations is an important global task. Spiders are creatures with a fascinating behaviour, overall in the way they build their webs. This is the reason this work proposed a novel problem: the used of spider webs as a source of information for specie recognition. To do so, biometric techniques such as image processing tools, Principal Component Analysis, and Support Vector Machine have been used to build a spider web identification system. With a database built of images from spider webs of three species, the system reached a best performance of 95,44 % on a 10 K-Folds cross-validation procedure.
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Ticay-Rivas, J.R., del Pozo-Baños, M., Eberhard, W.G., Alonso, J.B., Travieso, C.M. (2011). Spider Recognition by Biometric Web Analysis. In: Ferrández, J.M., Álvarez Sánchez, J.R., de la Paz, F., Toledo, F.J. (eds) New Challenges on Bioinspired Applications. IWINAC 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6687. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21326-7_44
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