Automating insect identification: Exploring the limitations of a prototype system

Journal of Applied Entomology

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-8

  Weeks, P J D ^a   O'Neill, M A ^b   Gaston, K J ^c   Gauld, I D ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IDENTIFICATION METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INSECT;

CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; INSECTA; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0033015348     PISSN: 09312048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0418.1999.00307.x     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. ALBERCH, P., 1993: Museums, collections and biodiversity inventories. Trends Ecol. Evol. 8, 372-375.
2. CHALMERS, N. R., 1996: Monitoring and inventorying biodiversity: collections, data and training,. In: Biodiversity, science and development. Towards a new partnership. Ed. by DI CASTRI, F.; YOUNÈS, T. Wallingibrd: CAB International, 171-179.
3. CURWEN, R. M.; BLAKE, A.; CIPOLLA, R., 1991: Parallel implementation of Langrangian dynamics for real-time snakes. In: Proc. Brit. Mach. Vis. Conf. (Glasgow). Ed. by MOUFORTH, P. London, Springer Verlag, 29-35.
4. DALY, H. V.; HOELMER, K.; NORMAN, P.; ALLEN, T., 1982: Computer-assisted measurement and identification of honey bees (Hymenoptera. Apidae). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 75, 591-594.
5. DI CASTRI, F.; ROBERTSON VERNHES, J.; YOUNÈS, T., 1992: Inventorying and monitoring Biodiversity. Biol. Int. Special Issue 27, 1-28.
6. GASTON, K. J.; MAY, R. M., 1992: Taxonomy of taxonomists. Nature 356, 281-282.
7. GAULD, I. D., 1986: Taxonomy, its limitations and its role in understanding parasitoid biology. In: Insect parasitoids. Ed. by WAAGE, J.; GREATHEAD, D. London: Academic Press, 1-21.
8. _, 1991: The Ichneumonidae of Costa Rica, 1. The sub-families Rhyssinae, Pimplinae, Poemeniinae, Acaenitinae and Cylloceriinae. Mem. Am. Ent. Inst. 47, 1-589.
9. HAWKSWORTH, D. L., 1994: The identification and characterisation of pest organisms. Wallingford: CAB International. 486pp.
10. HOLDEN, C., 1989: Entomologists wane as insects wax. Science 246, 754-756.
11. HOUSE OF LORDS, 1991: Systematic biology research. Report of the Select Committee on Science and Technology. London: HMSO. 106 pp.
12. JANZEN, D. H., 1993: Taxonomy: universal and essential infrastructure for development and management of tropical wildland biodiversity. In: Proc. Norway/UNEP Expert Conference on Biodiversity, Trondheim, Norway. Ed. by SANDLUND, O. T.; SCHEI, P. J. Trondheim: NINA. 100-113.
13. LANE, P. L., 1981: A quantitative analysis of wing pattern in the Culicoides pulicaris species group (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Zoo. J. Linn. Soc. 72, 21-41.
14. LATTIN, J. D.; KNUTSON, L., 1982: Taxonomic information and services on arthropods of importance to human welfare in Central and South America. FAO Plant Protection Bull. 30, 92-95.
15. MAY, R. M., 1990: Taxonomy as destiny. Nature 347, 129-130.
16. PANKHURST, R. J., 1978: Biological Identification, London: Arnold. 104 pp.
17. PENIO, P. S.; ATICK, J. J., 1996: Local feature analysis: a general statistical theory for object representation. Network: Computation Neural Systems 7 (3), 477-500.
18. PRESS, W. H.; TEUKOLSKY, S. A.; VETTERLING, W. T.; FLANNERY, B. P., 1994: Numerical recipes in C. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
19. REID, W. V.; LAIRD, S. A.; MEYER, C. A.; GÁMEZ, R.; SITTENFELD, A.; JANZEN, D. H.; GOLLIN, M. A.; JUMA, C., 1993: Biodiversity prospecting: using genetic resources for sustainable development. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute.
20. TILLING, S. M., 1987: Education and taxonomy: the role of the Field Studies Council and AIDGAP. In: Nature, natural history and ecology. Ed. by BERRY, R. J.; CROTHERS, J. H. London: Academic Press, 87-96.
21. TURK, M.; PENTLAND, A., 1991: Eigenfaces for recognition. J. Cogn. Neuroscience 3, 71-86.
22. UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/2..., 1996: Report of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice on the work of its second meeting. Montreal: Secretariat to the Convention on Biological Diversity.
23. WEEKS, P. J. D.; GASTON, K. J., 1997: Image analysis, neural networks, and the taxonomic impediment to biodiversity studies. Biodiver. Conserv. 6, 263-274.
24. WEEKS, P. J. D.; GAULD, I. D.; GASTON, K. J.; O'NEILL, M. A., 1997: Automating the identification of insects: a new solution to an old problem. Bull. Entomol. Res. 87, 203-211.
25. WEEKS, P. J. D.; O'NEILL, M. A.; GASTON, K. J.; GAULD, I. D., 1998: Species-identification of wasps using principal component associative memories. Image and Vision Computing.
26. WHITE, I. M.; SCOTT, P. R., 1994: Computer information resources for pest identification: a review. In: The identification and characterisation of pest organisms. Ed. by HAWKSWORTH, D. L. Wallingford: CAB International, 129-137.
27. WHITTEN, A., 1996: Field guides: useful tools in environmental planning and management. World Bank Environ. Department, Dissemination Notes. Washington DC, World Bank, 51, 1-4.
28. YU, D. S.; KOKKO, E. G.; BARRON, J. R.; SCHAALJE, G. B.; GOWEN, B. E., 1992: Identification of ichneumonid wasps using image analysis of wings. Syst. Ent. 17, 389-395.
29. ZHOU, Y. H.; LING, L. B.; ROHLF, F. J., 1985: Automatic description of the venation of mosquito wings from digitized images. Syst. Zool. 34, 346-358.