The color of butterflies, shapes of wings and textures change
with a great range. It is to such an extent that these features play
an important role in the distinction of species at first glance. While
these kinds of features are seen as taxonomic characters as long
as being limited in species, sometimes in distinction of species
very alike, especially an examination of external genital organs of
male individuals is necessary. In recent years, as result of cariologic
researches, it is understood that chromosome numbers and sizes
of species are important in distinction of species in some Agrodiaetus species (Lycaenidae). For these reasons new classification
techniques are very important. While using various techniques in
butterfly species distinction, it is seen that machine learning and
vision techniques are not used sufficiently. In this study, we have
presented a view-based system for recognition and identification
of butterfly species with LBP and ANN. LBP have been successfully
applied to the fields of image processing and image analysis. Due
to its texture discriminative property and its very low computational cost, LBP is becoming very popular in pattern recognition.
LBPs are considered as one of the texture descriptors with better
results; they employ a statistical feature extraction by means of
the binarization of the neighborhood of every image pixel with
a local threshold determined by the central pixel. LBP features
extracted frombutterfly images and classificationprocesswas evaluated through ANN by using LBP features as inputs. Experimental
results showed that the LBP operator can describe the main characters of butterfly images effectively. The best classification accuracy
rates of butterfly identification based on the LBP operators were