Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles Article Faculty Publications -Articles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Nondestructive and cost-effective silkworm, Bombyx mori (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae) cocoon sex classification using machine learning Subject The topic of the resource Image Processing; Machine learning; Sericulture; Sex classification; Silkworm Cocoon Description An account of the resource Sericulture is the process of cultivating silkworm cocoons for the production of silks. The quality silk production requires quality seed production which in turn requires accurate classification of male and female pupa in grainage centers. The challenges in the current methods of silkworm cocoon sex classification using manual observation lie in the time-consuming nature of the process, potential human error, and difficulties in accurately discerning subtle morphological differences between male and female cocoons. FC1 and FC2 single hybrid variety breed pupa are commonly used in south India for the production of high yielding double hybrid bivoltine silkworm seeds. In this study, 1579 FC1 and 1669 FC2 variety samples were used for the classification process. To overcome the challenges of present physical observation by expert employees, camera images of FC1 and FC2 cocoons were used in this study for sex classification. The proposed model used Histogram Oriented Gradient (HOG) feature descriptor of cocoon samples. Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) was applied on the feature vector to reduce the dimension and this feature matrix was given to the classical machine learning algorithms support vector machine (SVM), k-nearest neighbors (kNN), and gaussian nae bayes for classification with stratified 10-fold cross validation. The results showed that for FC1 data HOG + LDA + Nae Bayes performed better with a mean accuracy of 95.3% and for FC2 data HOG + LDA + KNN attained a mean accuracy of 96.2%. Our results suggest that this camera imaging method can be used efficiently in the classification based on the cocoon size and shape of different breeds. African Association of Insect Scientists 2024. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Thomas S.; Thomas J. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived International Journal of Tropical Insect Science, Vol-44, No. 3, pp. 1125-1137. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Springer Nature Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2024-01-01 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s42690-024-01207-7" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://doi.org/10.1007/s42690-024-01207-7</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85188522789&amp;doi=10.1007%2Fs42690-024-01207-7&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=3d93239715f576fdbf1ee169af6e832c" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85188522789&amp;doi=10.1007%2fs42690-024-01207-7&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=3d93239715f576fdbf1ee169af6e832c</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Restricted Access Relation A related resource ISSN: 17427584 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Online Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Article Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Thomas S., Department of Computer Science and Engineering, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India; Thomas J., Department of Computer Science and Engineering, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India