Spider Recognition by biometric web analysis

Abstract

Saving earth’s biodiversity for future generations is an important global task. Spiders are creatures with a fascinating behaviour, overall in the way they build their webs. This is the reason this work proposed a novel problem: the used of spider webs as a source of information for specie recognition. To do so, biometric techniques such as image processing tools, Principal Component Analysis, and Support Vector Machine have been used to build a spider web identification system. With a database built of images from spider webs of three species, the system reached a best performance of 95,44 % on a 10 K-Folds cross-validation procedure.