Hough-transform-based vision algorithm for crop row detection of an automated agricultural vehicle

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering

Volumn 219, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 999-1010

  Rovira Mas F ^a   Zhang, Q ^a   Reid, J F ^b   Will, J D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b DEERE AND COMPANY   (United States)

^c VALPARAISO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic guidance; Autonomous vehicle; Connectivity analysis; Hough transform; Machine vision

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; GROUND VEHICLES; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE PROCESSING;

AUTOMATIC GUIDANCE; AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; CONNECTIVITY ANALYSIS; CROP ROW DETECTION;

TRACTORS (AGRICULTURAL);

EID: 23944455876     PISSN: 09544070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/095440705X34667     Document Type: Article

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