Segmentation of plants and weeds for a precision crop protection robot using infrared images

IEE Proceedings: Vision, Image and Signal Processing

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 118-124

  Brivot, R ^a   Marchant, J A ^a  

^a SILSOE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Afatliematical morphology; Blob filtering; Multithresholding; Near infrared imaging; Robotics

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CROPS; HERBICIDES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFRARED IMAGING; LIGHTING; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; PESTICIDES; PLANTS (BOTANY); ROBOTICS; WEED CONTROL;

BLOB FILTERING; GRADIENT DETECTION; MULTITHRESHOLDING METHODS; NEAR INFRARED IMAGING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0030123694     PISSN: 1350245X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-vis:19960202     Document Type: Article

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