Vegetation segmentation robust to illumination variations based on clustering and morphology modelling

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 125, Issue , 2014, Pages 80-97

  Bai, Xiaodong ^a   Cao, Zhiguo ^a   Wang, Yu ^a   Yu, Zhenghong ^a   Hu, Zhu ^a   Zhang, Xuefen ^b   Li, Cuina ^b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Clustering number; Mathematical morphology; Particle Swarm Optimization; Vegetation segmentation

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COLOR; EXPERIMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); VEGETATION;

CLUSTERING NUMBER; ILLUMINATION VARIATION; MORPHOLOGICAL DILATION; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMISATION; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SEGMENTATION QUALITY; SEGMENTATION RESULTS; STRUCTURING ELEMENT;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84904489233     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2014.06.015     Document Type: Article

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