Quality assessment of row crop plants by using a machine vision system

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2466-2471

  Weyrich, Michael ^a   Wang, Yongheng ^b   Scharf, Matthias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

crop plants; machine vision; plant segmentation, plant localization, plant quality; quality assessment

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIES; CROP PLANTS; IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM; MACHINE VISION SYSTEMS; NEAR-INFRARED SENSORS; PLANT QUALITY; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; RESEARCH RESULTS;

CAMERAS; CROPS; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; INFRARED DEVICES; LIGHTING; PLANTS (BOTANY); SENSORS;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 84893620942     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2013.6699518     Document Type: Conference Paper

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