Patent ID: 8755571

Claim:
An image method for classifying insects used for classifying at least one insect, the method comprising: obtaining a detecting image of the at least one insect in a detecting area by an image detector; obtaining a first foreground image related to the at least one insect by background subtraction, according to a background image of the detecting area and the detecting image; extracting a saturation from the first foreground image and eliminating a non-characteristic object therein to obtain a second foreground image; extracting a characteristic related to the at least one insect from the second foreground image according to a threshold; determining the classification of the at least one insect according to the characteristic; wherein the at least one insect is a fruit fly, the detecting image is of the abdominal of the insect in the detecting area, and the characteristic represents the copulatory organ of the abdominal of the insect.