Computational Botany: Methods for Automated Species Identification

Remagnino, Paolo/ Cope, James/ Wilkin, Paul/ Kirkup, Donald William/ Mayo, Simon Joseph

ISBN 10: 3662537435 / ISBN 13: 9783662537435

Published by Springer-Verlag New York Inc, 2016

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124 pages. 9.75x6.25x0.50 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # x-3662537435

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Title: Computational Botany: Methods for Automated ...

Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Publication Date: 2016

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Brand New

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Synopsis:

This book discusses innovative methods for mining information from images of plants, especially leaves, and highlights the diagnostic features that can be implemented in fully automatic systems for identifying plant species. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, it explores the problem of plant species identification, covering both the concepts of taxonomy and morphology. It then provides an overview of morphometrics, including the historical background and the main steps in the morphometric analysis of leaves together with a number of applications. The core of the book focuses on novel diagnostic methods for plant species identification developed from a computer scientist’s perspective. It then concludes with a chapter on the characterization of botanists' visions, which highlights important cognitive aspects that can be implemented in a computer system to more accurately replicate the human expert’s fixation process. The book not only represents an authoritative guide to advanced computational tools for plant identification, but provides experts in botany, computer science and pattern recognition with new ideas and challenges. As such it is expected to foster both closer collaborations and further technological developments in the emerging field of automatic plant identification.