Scientists use AI cobweb analysis to determine spider species
Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 05:00
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org) —The identification of spider species based on pattern recognition of their cobwebs has been shown to be quite possible and successful. The paper, "Spider specie identification and verification based on pattern recognition of it cobweb," was published in Expert Systems and Applications and the paper's research was also recently discussed in New Scientist. A team came up with an AI cobweb recognition system through the use of special software for analyzing images supplied by a spider expert. More specifically the team used images from William Eberhard of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Costa Rica.