The article presents the results of experiments to study the possibility of using machine vision algorithms for identifying timber, in particular round timber, based on the recognition of the image of annual rings taken as a natural marker. Image recognition is carried out using fingerprint identification algorithms. The results of testing several algorithms for fingerprint identification are presented. The analysis of the effectiveness of the proposed method and its suitability for solving such problems is carried out.

Keywords: annual rings, fingerprints, recognition, identification, image processing, pattern recognition, operational accounting, efficiency