Evaluation of texture features for automatic detecting butterfly species using extreme learning machine

Abstract

In this study, we present an application of extreme learning machine (ELM) and image processing techniques for identifying butterfly species as an alternative to conventional diagnostic methods. This paper evaluates the capability of butterfly species classification by using texture features of butterfly images. Two texture descriptors such as grey-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) and local binary patterns (LBP) were used for comparison purpose. ELM is employed for classification in butterfly-feature space. A total of 190 butterfly images belonging to 19 different species of Pieridae family were used. The identification accuracy of the proposed method was 98.25% and 96.45% with GLCM and LBP butterfly-feature spaces, respectively. The methodology presented herein effectively detected and classified these butterflies. These findings suggested that the proposed GLCM, LBP texture features extraction techniques and ELM algorithm are feasible and excellent in identification and classification of butterfly species.