Insect recognition based on integrated region matching and dual tree complex wavelet transform

• Published in: Frontiers of information technology & electronic engineering Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 44 - 53
• Main Authors: Zhu, Le-qing, Zhang, Zhen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg SP Zhejiang University Press 2011; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Algorithms; Color imagery; Communications Engineering; Computer Hardware; Computer Science; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks; Electrical Engineering; Electronics and Microelectronics; Image classification; Insects; Instrumentation; Lepidoptera; Matching; Networks; Recognition; Wavelet transforms; Lepidopteran insects; TP391.41; Integrated region matching (IRM); Dual tree complex wavelet transform (DTCWT); Auto-classification; means algorithm
• ISSN: 1869-1951; 2095-9184; 1869-196X; 2095-9230
• DOI: 10.1631/jzus.C0910740

To provide pest technicians with a convenient way to recognize insects, a novel method is proposed to classify insect images by integrated region matching （IRM） and dual tree complex wavelet transform （DTCWT）. The wing image of the lepidopteran insect is preproeessed to obtain the region of interest （ROI） whose position is then calibrated. The ROI is first segmented with the k-means algorithm into regions according to the color features, properties of all the segmented regions being used as a coarse level feature. The color image is then converted to a grayscale image, where DTCWT features are extracted as a fine level feature. The IRM scheme is undertaken to find K nearest neighbors （KNNs）, out of which the nearest neighbor is searched by computing the Canberra distance of DTCWT features. The method was tested with a database including 100 lepidopteran insect species from 18 families and the recognition accuracy was 84.47%. For the forewing subset, a recognition accuracy of 92.38% was achieved. The results showed that the proposed method can effectively solve the problem of automatic species identification of lepidopteran specimens.