Department of Pattern Recognition

(eng): We present novel rotationally invariant fully multispectral Markovian textural features applied for the efficient tree bark recognition. These textural features are derived from the novel descriptive multispectral spiral wide-sense Markov model. Unlike the alternative bark recognition methods based on various gray-scale discriminative textural descriptions, we benefit from fully descriptive color, rotationally invariant bark texture representation. The proposed methods significantly outperform the state-of-the-art bark recognition approaches regarding classification accuracy. Both our classifiers outperform convolutional neural network ResNet even on the largest public bark database BarkNet which contains 23 000 high-resolution images from 23 different tree species.