Authentication of bee pollen grains in bright‐field microscopy by combining one‐class classification techniques and image processing

A novel method for authenticating pollen grains in bright‐field microscopic images is presented in this work. The usage of this new method is clear in many application fields such as bee‐keeping sector, where laboratory experts need to identify fraudulent bee pollen samples against local known pollen types. Our system is based on image processing and one‐class classification to reject unknown pollen grain objects. The latter classification technique allows us to tackle the major difficulty of the problem, the existence of many possible fraudulent pollen types, and the impossibility of modeling all of them. Different one‐class classification paradigms are compared to study the most suitable technique for solving the problem. In addition, feature selection algorithms are applied to reduce the complexity and increase the accuracy of the models. For each local pollen type, a one‐class classifier is trained and aggregated into a multiclassifier model. This multiclassification scheme combines the output of all the one‐class classifiers in a unique final response. The proposed method is validated by authenticating pollen grains belonging to different Spanish bee pollen types. The overall accuracy of the system on classifying fraudulent microscopic pollen grain objects is 92.3%. The system is able to rapidly reject pollen grains, which belong to nonlocal pollen types, reducing the laboratory work and effort. The number of possible applications of this authentication method in the microscopy research field is unlimited. Microsc. Res. Tech. 2012. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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