Artificial intelligence in pest insect monitoring

Autor: Peter Fedor, Igor Malenovský, Josef Havel, Ian F. Spellerberg, Jaromír Vaňhara
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Systematic Entomology. 34:398-400
ISSN: 0307-6970
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2008.00461.x
Popis: Global problems of hunger and malnutrition induced us to introduce a new tool for semi-automated pest insect identification and monitoring: an artificial neural network system. Multilayer perceptrons, an artificial intelligence method, seem to be efficient for this purpose. We evaluated 101 European economically important thrips (Thysanoptera) species: extrapolation of the verification test data indicated 95% reliability at least for some taxa analysed. Mainly quantitative morphometric characters, such as head, clavus, wing, ovipositor length and width, formed the input variable computation set in a Trajan neural network simulator. The technique may be combined with digital image analysis.
Databáze: OpenAIRE