Seedling discrimination with shape features derived from a distance transform

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 5585-5602

  Mosgaard Giselsson, Thomas ^a   Skov Midtiby, Henrik ^a   Nyholm Jørgensen, Rasmus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Machine vision; Object recognition; Shape characterization

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; DISCRIMINATION ACCURACY; DISTANCE DISTRIBUTIONS; LINEAR SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; NONLINEAR SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLYNOMIAL COEFFICIENTS; SHAPE CHARACTERIZATION;

COMPUTER VISION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION;

EID: 84877652752     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s130505585     Document Type: Article

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