Bee preservation is important because approximately 70% of all pollination of food crops is made by them and this service costs more than $ 65 billion annually. In order to help this preservation, the identification of the bee species is necessary, and since this is a costly and time-consuming process, techniques that automate and facilitate this identification become relevant. Images of bees' wings in conjunction with computer vision and artificial intelligence techniques can be used to automate this process. This paper presents an approach to do segmentation of bees' wing images and feature extraction. Our approach was evaluated using the modified Hausdorff distance and F measure. The results were, at least, 24% more precise than the related approaches and the proposed approach was able to deal with noisy images.
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