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00925njm 22002777a 4500 dc Diez Pastor, José Francisco author Latorre Carmona, Pedro author Arnaiz González, Álvar author Ruiz Pérez, Javier author Zurro, Débora author 2020-11 Phytoliths can be an important source of information related to environmental and climatic change, as well as to ancient plant use by humans, particularly within the disciplines of paleoecology and archaeology. Currently, phytolith identification and categorization is performed manually by researchers, a time-consuming task liable to misclassifications. The automated classification of phytoliths would allow the standardization of identification processes, avoiding possible biases related to the classification capability of researchers. This paper presents a comparative analysis of six classification methods, using digitized microscopic images to examine the efficacy of different quantitative approaches for characterizing phytoliths. A comprehensive experiment performed on images of 429 phytoliths demonstrated that the automatic phytolith classification is a promising area of research that will help researchers to invest time more efficiently and improve their recognition accuracy rate. 1431-9276 http://hdl.handle.net/10259/7378 10.1017/S1431927620024629 1435-8115 Feature extraction Machine learning Microfossils Morphometry Proxy “You Are Not My Type”: An Evaluation of Classification Methods for Automatic Phytolith Identification