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ArticleDatabase : the journal of biological databases and curation2023

SmartWoodID-an image collection of large end-grain surfaces to support wood identification systems.

Ruben De Blaere, Kévin Lievens, Dieter Van Hassel, Victor Deklerck, Tom De Mil, Wannes Hubau, Joris Van Acker, Nils Bourland, Jan Verwaeren, Jan Van den Bulcke and 1 more

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  2. "Touch&Play" Wood Typification by the MasSpec Pen.Journal of mass spectrometry : JMS · 2025
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Ruben De BlaereService of Wood Biology, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Leuvensesteenweg 13, Tervuren 3080, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-5736-9701
Kévin LievensService of Wood Biology, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Leuvensesteenweg 13, Tervuren 3080, Belgium.
Dieter Van HasselService of Wood Biology, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Leuvensesteenweg 13, Tervuren 3080, Belgium.
Victor DeklerckJodrell laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, London TW9 3A, UK.
Tom De MilTERRA Teaching and Research Center, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech (Université de Liège), Passage des Déportés 2, Gembloux 5030, Belgium.
Wannes HubauService of Wood Biology, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Leuvensesteenweg 13, Tervuren 3080, Belgium.
Joris Van AckerUGent-Woodlab, Laboratory of Wood Technology, Department of Environment, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, Gent 9000, Belgium.
Nils BourlandService of Wood Biology, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Leuvensesteenweg 13, Tervuren 3080, Belgium.
Jan VerwaerenUGent-KERMIT, Research Unit Knowledge-based, Predictive and Spatio-temporal Modelling, Department of Data Analysis and Mathematical Modelling, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, Gent 9000, Belgium.
Jan Van den BulckeUGent-Woodlab, Laboratory of Wood Technology, Department of Environment, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, Gent 9000, Belgium.
Hans BeeckmanService of Wood Biology, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Leuvensesteenweg 13, Tervuren 3080, Belgium.

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Abstract

Wood identification is a key step in the enforcement of laws and regulations aimed at combatting illegal timber trade. Robust wood identification tools, capable of distinguishing a large number of timbers, depend on a solid database of reference material. Reference material for wood identification is typically curated in botanical collections dedicated to wood consisting of samples of secondary xylem of lignified plants. Specimens from the Tervuren Wood Collection, one of the large institutional wood collections around the world, are used as a source of tree species data with potential application as timber. Here, we present SmartWoodID, a database of high-resolution optical scans of the end-grain surfaces enriched with expert wood anatomical descriptions of macroscopic features. These can serve as annotated training data to develop interactive identification keys and artificial intelligence for computer vision-based wood identification. The first edition of the database consists of images of 1190 taxa, with a focus on potential timber species from the Democratic Republic of the Congo with at least four different specimens per species included. Database URL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12624/SmartWoodID_first_edition.

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