Digital image analysis based automated kiwifruit counting technique

2008 23rd International Conference Image and Vision Computing New Zealand, IVCNZ

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Wijethunga, P ^a   Samarasinghe, S ^a   Kulasiri, D ^a   Woodhead, I ^a,b  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b LINCOLN AGRITECH LTD   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Applied image processing; Automated counting; Distance transform; Image segmentation; Minimum distance classifier

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CLASSIFIERS; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; HARVESTING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; ORCHARDS;

APPLIED IMAGE PROCESSING; AUTOMATED COUNTING; COLOUR SPACES; COUNTING SYSTEMS; DIGITAL IMAGE ANALYSIS; DISTANCE TRANSFORM; IMAGE DATUM; KIWIFRUIT; LONG DURATIONS; LOW COSTS; MINIMUM DISTANCE CLASSIFIER; NEW ZEALAND; SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES;

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE;

EID: 63049086702     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IVCNZ.2008.4762149     Document Type: Conference Paper

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