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Automated Classification of Wood Transverse Cross-Section Micro-Imagery from 77 Commercial Central-African Timber Species Núbia Rosa Da Silva, Maaike De Ridder, Jan M Automated classification of wood transverse cross-section micro-imagery from 77 commercial Central-African timber species Núbia Rosa da Silva, Maaike de Ridder, Jan M. Baetens, Jan van den Bulcke, Mélissa Rousseau, Odemir Martinez Bruno, Hans Beeckman, Joris van Acker, Bernard de Baets To cite this version: Núbia Rosa da Silva, Maaike de Ridder, Jan M. Baetens, Jan van den Bulcke, Mélissa Rousseau, et al.. Automated classification of wood transverse cross-section micro-imagery from 77 commercial Central-African timber species. Annals of Forest Science, Springer Nature (since 2011)/EDP Science (until 2010), 2017, 74 (2), pp.30. 10.1007/s13595-017-0619-0. hal-02976526 HAL Id: hal-02976526 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02976526 Submitted on 23 Oct 2020 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Annals of Forest Science (2017) 74: 30 DOI 10.1007/s13595-017-0619-0 ORIGINAL PAPER Automated classification of wood transverse cross-section micro-imagery from 77 commercial Central-African timber species NubiaRosadaSilva´ 1,2,3 · Maaike De Ridder4,5 · JanM.Baetens6 · Jan Van den Bulcke4 · Melissa´ Rousseau5 · Odemir Martinez Bruno1,2 · Hans Beeckman5 · Joris Van Acker4 · Bernard De Baets6 Received: 4 July 2016 / Accepted: 31 January 2017 / Published online: 3 April 2017 © INRA and Springer-Verlag France 2017 Abstract • Context Considering the lack of automated methods for • Key message Pattern recognition has become an wood species classification, machine vision based on pattern important tool to aid in the identification and classifi- recognition might offer a feasible and attractive solution cation of timber species. In this context, the focus of because it is less dependent on expert knowledge, while exist- this work is the classification of wood species using tex- ing databases containing high-quality microscopy images can ture characteristics of transverse cross-section images be exploited. obtained by microscopy. The results show that this • Aims This work focuses on the automated classification of approach is robust and promising. 1221 micro-images originating from 77 commercial timber species from the Democratic Republic of Congo. • Methods Microscopic images of transverse cross-sections of all wood species are taken in a standardized way using a magnification of 25×. The images are represented as texture Handling Editor: Jean-Michel Leban feature vectors extracted using local phase quantization or local binary patterns and classified by a nearest neighbor classifier Contribution of the co-authors Designing the experiment: Maaike De Ridder, Melissa´ Rousseau, Hans Beeckman, according to a triplet of labels (species, genus, family). Nubia´ Rosa da Silva, Jan M. Baetens, Bernard De Baets • Results The classification combining both local phase Writing the paper: Nubia´ Rosa da Silva, Maaike De Ridder, quantization and linear discriminant analysis results in an JanVandenBulcke average success rate of approximately 88% at species level, Running the data analysis: Nubia´ Rosa da Silva, Jan M. Baetens, Bernard De Baets, Odemir Martinez Bruno 89% at genus level and 90% at family level. The success Supervising the work: Jan M. Baetens, Jan Van den Bulcke, Odemir rate of the classification method is remarkably high. More Martinez Bruno, Hans Beeckman, Joris Van Acker, Bernard De Baets than 50% of the species are never misclassified or only Coordinating the research project: Bernard De Baets, Odemir once. The success rate is increasing from the species, over Martinez Bruno the genus to the family level. Quite often, pattern recog- nition results can be explained anatomically. Species with Nubia´ Rosa da Silva [email protected] 4 1 Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, Department of Forest and Water Management, University of Sao˜ Paulo, USP, Avenida Trabalhador Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, sao-carlense,˜ 400, Sao˜ Carlos, Sao˜ Paulo, 13566-590, Brazil Coupure links 653, 9000 Ghent, Belgium 2 Scientific Computing Group, Sao˜ Carlos Institute of Physics, 5 Royal Museum for Central Africa, Service of Wood Biology, University of Sao˜ Paulo, USP, cx 369, Sao˜ Carlos, Sao˜ Paulo, Leuvensesteenweg 13, 3080 Tervuren, Belgium 13560-970, Brazil 3 Institute of Biotechnology, Federal University of Goias,´ UFG, 6 KERMIT, Department of Mathematical Modelling, Statistics Avenida Dr. Lamartine Pinto de Avelar, 1200, and Bioinformatics, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent Catalao,˜ Goias,´ 75704-020, Brazil University, Coupure links 653, 9000 Ghent, Belgium 30 Page 2 of 14 Annals of Forest Science (2017) 74: 30 a high success rate show diagnostic features in the images second viewpoint is that of the tangential section, which one used, whereas species with a low success rate often have obtains by cutting parallel to the main axis, but tangential distinctive anatomical features at other microscopic magni- to the growth rings. This section is principally used to study fications or orientations than those used in our approach. wood rays. The third viewpoint is that of the radial section, • Conclusion This work demonstrates the potential of a obtained by cutting lengthwise along radius. It provides semi-automated classification by resorting to pattern recogni- insight regarding ray composition. In order to determine tion. Semi-automated systems like this could become valu- the species of wood, its anatomical characteristics are anal- able tools complementing conventional wood identification. ysed by viewing from the three principal angles at different magnifications. Observed features are compared to scientific Keywords Commercial timber species · Democratic reference material kept in a xylarium or with data from special- Republic of Congo · Image analysis · Pattern recognition · ist literature or databases like InsideWood (Wheeler 2011). · Transverse cross-section Wood anatomy Alternative methods to facilitate wood species recog- nition are gradually established. DNA methods based on 1 Introduction molecular markers provide such an alternative, but the extraction methods are still expensive and data interpreta- The world’s estimated annual wood trade was more than tion is to be done by a skilled genetic expert. Moreover, the 2.6 billion m3 in 2014 (ITTO: International Tropical Tim- lack of reference databases is also hampering fast progress ber Organization 2014), and several regulations are being in species identification (Hanssen et al. 2011; Nithaniyal established to assure the legal origin of the wood and et al. 2014). Recently, species identification through chemo- the sustainability of logging activities. Proper control is metric processing of direct analysis in real time (DART) thus essential given the pressure on certain commercial mass spectrometry-derived fingerprints has been developed wood species and to protect those that are registered as (Musah et al. 2015). Up to this day, this method allows to ‘endangered’ by the International Union for Conservation distinguish a limited number of mostly CITES-listed species of Nature (IUCN) or listed by the Convention on Interna- and shows promising results. Databases of fingerprints are tional Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) (Johnson and currently being established and expert knowledge for inter- Laestadius 2011). Given the diversity of species, a major pretation is required (Musah et al. 2015). Also, machine concern in tackling illegal logging and trade in the tropics vision based on pattern recognition for automated wood is the classification of wood samples. While the number of species identification using pattern recognition appears a European tree species is limited to about 120 (Latham and feasible and attractive solution, because it is less dependent Ricklefs 1993), the total number of tropical tree species is on expert knowledge, while existing databases containing between 40,000 and 50,000, of which about 5000 are found high-quality microscopy images can be exploited (Herman- in the tropics of Africa (Slik et al. 2015). son and Wiedenhoeft 2011). Wood can be considered as a natural compound mate- Recent research illustrates the potential of automated clas- rial that consists of different types of cells and tissues. sification based on macroscopic (Bremananth et al. 2009; Variation in wood structure mainly depends on the wood Yu et al. 2009; Khairuddin et al. 2011; Khalid et al. 2011; species, but also on cambial age, growth rate and envi- Yusof et al. 2013a, b;Zhao2013;Zhaoetal.2014a, b; Filho ronmental conditions. Anatomical composition of wood is et al. 2014) and microscopic (Mallik et al. 2011; Gurau et al. being discussed in the context of tree performance anal- 2013; Guang-Sheng and Peng 2013; Cui et al. 2013)images. ysis (Beeckman 2016), wood technology, plant phylogeny Although some studies show satisfactory results, they are and botanical identification. There are three types of tissue: either based on experiments using few species (Bremananth conducting tissue for sap transport; supporting tissue for et al. 2009;Zhao2013;Zhaoetal.2014a, b; Mallik
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