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Our research pinpoints the features of wood that can be used to identify materials from a variety of sources, such as archaeological specimens, forensic samples or newly imported timbers. The UN ...
In this paper, a novel wood identification approach based on the two-directional two-dimensional PCA ((2D)2PCA) method is proposed in contrast to the principal component analysis(PCA), two-dimensional ...
References [1] Advanced wood species identification based on multiple anatomical sections and using deep feature transfer and fusion. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (2025).
Many timber woods of conservation concern are hard to distinguish anatomically from species resembling them, especially when the wood sample lacks leaves or other botanical features. For instance ...
We are providing wood samples that they are using to build NFWFL's reference database, Forensic Spectra of Trees (ForeST), for a new chemistry-based method for wood identification. They in turn will ...
The wood library, based in Los Baños, Laguna, and the only one of its kind in the country, hosts 16,348 local specimens and 5,274 foreign wood samples from more than 100 countries.
Anatomical similarities of tropical hardwoods impair identification. Deep learning models can facilitate microscopic identification of wood by using sophisticated techniques such as deep convolutional ...
Manaus, 8 March 2024 – Aiming at contributing to the response of Brazilian institutions to forest crimes, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Brazil organized a wood identification ...