A multiple strategy for plant species identification using images of leaf texture

Abstract

In our planet there are thousands of plant species, being important to catalog these to help in the biodiversity preservation. However, identifying various plant species is not an easy task, even for specialists. Methods of computer vision for identifying plant species are interesting solutions for these difficulties. This work aims to analyze the efficiency of texture feature extraction methods applied in the identification of plant species by means of images of its leaves. For this, different texture descriptors were applied in three different databases. The obtained results indicate that local phase quantization (LPQ)-based methods achieve great efficiency and robustness. Additionally, the combination of LPQ-based methods with a segmentation based fractal texture analysis (SFTA) has increased the correct classification rate in all databases.