RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 “You Are Not My Type”: An Evaluation of Classification Methods for Automatic Phytolith Identification A1 Diez Pastor, José Francisco A1 Latorre Carmona, Pedro A1 Arnaiz González, Álvar A1 Ruiz Pérez, Javier A1 Zurro, Débora K1 Feature extraction K1 Machine learning K1 Microfossils K1 Morphometry K1 Proxy K1 Informática K1 Computer science AB Phytoliths can be an important source of information related to environmental and climatic change, as well as to ancient plant use byhumans, 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 allowthe 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 quantitativeapproaches 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 theirrecognition accuracy rate. PB Cambridge University Press SN 1431-9276 YR 2020 FD 2020-11 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/7378 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/7378 LA eng NO This work was supported by the project TIN2015- 67534-P (MINECO/FEDER, UE) of the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad of the Spanish Government, by the project BU085P17 (JCyL/FEDER, UE) of the Junta de Castilla y León (both projects co-financed through European Union FEDER funds) and by Grups de Recerca de Qualitat CaSEs – Culture and Socio-Ecological Dynamics (2017 SGR 212), AGAUR-Generalitat de Catalunya. The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of NVIDIA Corporation and its donation of the TITAN Xp GPUs used in this research. DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos RD 23-dic-2024