Use of machine vision to sort tomato seedlings for grafting robot

Engineering in Agriculture, Environment and Food

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 119-125

  Ashraf, Muhammad Ali ^a   Kondo, Naoshi ^b   Shiigi, Tomoo ^b  

^a BANGLADESH AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Grafting robot; Machine vision; Sorting algorithm; Tomato seedling

Indexed keywords

FRUITS; GRADING; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); LIGHTING; ROBOTS;

BLUE COLORS; GRAFTING ROBOTS; IRREGULAR ARRANGEMENT; LIGHT FILTERING; SORTING ALGORITHM; STEM DIAMETER; TOMATO SEEDLINGS;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 81055122765     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18818366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1881-8366(11)80011-x     Document Type: Article

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