The remarkable developments in computer vision and machine learning have changed the
methodologies of many scientific disciplines. They have also created a new research field in …

Wood identification is an important tool in many areas, from biology to cultural heritage. In
the fight against illegal logging, it has a more necessary and impactful application …

The vascular bundle is the most important structural unit of bamboo that determines the
growth of bamboo and the properties of bamboo-based materials. A systematic …

Advances in species recognition technologies can contribute to the conservation and
protection of flora species, especially those threatened with extinction. The aim of this …

This paper develops a novel dominant feature selection method using a genetic algorithm
with a dynamic searching strategy. It is applied in the search for the most representative …

Identifying wood species using wood anatomy is an important tool for various purposes. The
traditionally used method is based on the macroscopic description of the physical and …

Scientific and reasonable utilization of bamboo is strongly related to the radial distribution of
the fiber volume fraction. In this paper, the K-means clustering algorithm was applied to set …

Digital image processing has been widely used in the wood industry, and it is expected that
the algorithms are accurate and have low computational complexities, especially for the real …

Societal Impact Statement Forest products are the most used inedible renewable resource,
but supplies are finite. It is difficult to know which tree species are in wood products or where …

Key message Pattern recognition has become an important tool to aid in the identification
and classification of timber species. In this context, the focus of this work is the classification …