Rapid automated detection of roots in minirhizotron images

Machine Vision and Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 309-317

  Zeng, Guang ^a   Birchfield, Stanley T ^a   Wells, Christina E ^b  

^a AMRL   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED DETECTION; AUTOMATIC DETECTION; CENTERLINES; DATA-DRIVEN; ENERGY FUNCTIONALS; GEOMETRIC TECHNIQUES; GIBBS POINT PROCESS; GREEDY ALGORITHMS; GROUPING SEED; MINIRHIZOTRONS; PIECEWISE LINEAR; PLANT ROOTS; REGION GROWING METHODS; ROOT SEGMENTS; SEED POINT;

PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES;

EID: 77953360579     PISSN: 09328092     EISSN: 14321769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00138-008-0179-2     Document Type: Article

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