Vision-based guidance line detection in row crop fields

2010 International Conference on Intelligent Computation Technology and Automation, ICICTA 2010

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages 1140-1143

  Xue, Jinlin ^a   Ju, Weiping ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Agricultural robot; Crop row; Guidance; Image processing; Machine vision

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS; AGRICULTURAL ROBOT; CENTRAL POINT; CROP PLANTS; GUIDANCE; LEAST SQUARE METHODS; LINE DETECTION; MACHINE VISION; ROBUST PERFORMANCE; ROW CROP; VEGETABLE FIELD; VISION-BASED GUIDANCE;

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; ROBOTS;

CROPS;

EID: 77955728898     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICICTA.2010.400     Document Type: Conference Paper

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