Machine vision techniques for the evaluation of seedling quality based on leaf area

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 369-379

  Tong, Jun H ^a   Li, Jiang B ^b   Jiang, Huan Y ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; COMPUTER VISION; FRUITS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SOFTWARE TESTING;

DECISION METHOD; IDENTIFICATION ACCURACY; QUALITY EVALUATION; SEEDLING QUALITY; TRANSPLANTING STAGE; VEGETABLE SEEDLINGS; WATER-SHED ALGORITHM; WATERSHED SEGMENTATION;

QUALITY CONTROL;

CUCUMIS SATIVUS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; SOLANUM MELONGENA;

EID: 84878638724     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2013.02.006     Document Type: Article

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