Pollen monitoring has traditionally been carried out using manual methods first developed in
the early 1950s. Although this technique has been recently standardised, it suffers from …

Honey, often referred to as' liquid gold,'a time-honoured natural food with a rich history, has
now ascended to the status of a superfood in today's global market, thanks to its myriad …

Haralick texture features are common texture descriptors in image analysis. To compute the
Haralick features, the image gray-levels are reduced, a process called quantization. The …

Background: Pollen are monitored in Europe by a network of about 400 pollen traps, all
operated manually. To date, automated pollen monitoring has only been feasible in areas …

Pollen identification and quantification are crucial but challenging tasks in addressing a
variety of evolutionary and ecological questions (pollination, paleobotany), but also for other …

In palynology, the visual classification of pollen grains from different species is a hard task
which is usually tackled by human operators using microscopes. Many industries, including …

Pollen and tracheophyte spores are ubiquitous environmental indicators at local and global
scales. Palynology is typically performed manually by microscopic analysis; a specialised …

The rapid and accurate taxonomic identification of fossils is of great significance in
paleontology, biostratigraphy, and other fields. However, taxonomic identification is often …

Petrographic analysis based on microfacies identification in thin sections is widely used in
sedimentary environment interpretation and paleoecological reconstruction. Fossil …

Melissopalynology is an important analytical method to identify botanical origin of honey.
Pollen grain recognition is commonly performed by visual inspection by a trained person. An …