Vision-based 3D peach tree reconstruction for automated blossom thinning

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 188-196

  Nielsen, Michael ^a   Slaughter, David C ^b   Gliever, Chris ^b  

^a DANISH TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b Univ of California   (United States)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; agriculture; automation; machine vision; sensors

Indexed keywords

3D RECONSTRUCTION; CALIBRATED CAMERAS; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM; MAPPING ACCURACY; MEGA-PIXEL; MULTIPLE CAMERAS; PARALLEL PROCESSING; PEACH TREES; SCENE STRUCTURE; STEREO ALGORITHMS; VISION BASED;

AGRICULTURE; ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; CAMERAS; COMPUTER VISION; FORESTRY; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; IMAGE MATCHING; SENSORS; STEREO VISION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AGRICULTURE; ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; CAMERAS; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SENSORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL DESIGN;

EID: 84856336221     PISSN: 15513203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TII.2011.2166780     Document Type: Article

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