Towards autonomous agriculture: Automatic ground detection using trinocular stereovision

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 12405-12423

  Reina, Giulio ^a   Milella, Annalisa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATION   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autonomous agriculture robotics; Self learning classifier; Stereovision

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL SETTING; AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION; CHANGING ENVIRONMENT; CLASSIFICATION PRECISION; PERCEPTION SYSTEMS; SCENE INTERPRETATION; SELF-LEARNING CLASSIFIERS; SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT;

COLOR; GEOMETRY; ROBOTS; STEREO VISION; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

AGRICULTURE;

EID: 84866990032     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s120912405     Document Type: Article

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