Segmentation of green vegetation of crop canopy images based on mean shift and Fisher linear discriminant

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 920-925

  Zheng, Liying ^a,c   Shi, Daming ^b   Zhang, Jingtao ^c  

^a HARBIN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

^c Hejiang Institute of Agriculture Science   (China)

Author keywords

Crop image; Fisher linear discriminant; Mean shift; Point line distance; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

CLASS MEAN; CROP CANOPY; DISTANCE-BASED STRATEGY; FISHER LINEAR DISCRIMINANTS; HIGH QUALITY; HYBRID METHOD; MEAN SHIFT; POINT-LINE DISTANCE; SIMULATION RESULT; TRAINING DATA;

CROPS; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 77951138969     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2010.01.016     Document Type: Article

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