Pollen Classification of three types of plants of the family Malvaceae using Computational Intelligence Approach

Abstract

The Malvaceae family is a kind of plants, which are commonly found near habitat places in India. The earlier approaches reported in the literature were tedious and time consuming with less accuracy due to the similarity in shape and the exine sculptures of pollens. We describe a new classification approach for the classification of three types of pollen grains of the Malvaceae family based on feature vector comprised of Histogram coefficients and image statistics. The approach presented gives precise accuracy in classification of pollen grains of the same family by using SEM images