An Evaluation of Classification Methods for Automatic Phytolith Identification

This software can be used for extracting features from phytoliths images. Two kind of features are extracted:

• Morphological and geometric.
• Elliptic Fourier descriptors (EFD).

The code is divided into two Jupyter Notebooks:

• Exploration_DataGeneration.ipynb: Generates the dataset from phytoliths images and their masks.
• Perform_Experiments.ipynb: Performs the experimentation with the dataset created by the previous notebook.

Authors

• José-Francisco Díez-Pastor
• Pedro Latorre-Carmona
• Álvar Arnaiz-González
• Javier Ruiz-Pérez
• Débora Zurro

Citation policy

The code was implemented by Jose-Francisco Díez-Pastor.

Cite this software as:

Díez-Pastor, J. F., Latorre-Carmona, P., Arnaiz-González, Á., Ruiz-Pérez, J., & Zurro, D. (2020). "You Are Not My Type": An Evaluation of Classification Methods for Automatic Phytolith Identification. Microscopy and Microanalysis, 1-10. doi: 10.1017/S1431927620024629

@article{DiezPastor2020,
  title={``You Are Not My Type'': An Evaluation of Classification Methods for Automatic Phytolith Identification}, 
  volume={26}, 
  doi={10.1017/S1431927620024629}, 
  number={6}, 
  journal={Microscopy and Microanalysis}, 
  publisher={Cambridge University Press}, 
  author={D\'iez-Pastor, Jos\'e-Francisco and Latorre-Carmona, Pedro and Arnaiz-Gonz\'alez, \'Alvar and Ruiz-P\'erez, Javier and Zurro, D\'ebora}, 
  year={2020}, 
  pages={1158–1167}}

Phytoliths images

The images are in the repository of the Pompeu Fabra University.