Recognition of clustered tomatoes based on binocular stereo vision

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 106, Issue , 2014, Pages 75-90

  Xiang, Rong ^a,b   Jiang, Huanyu ^a,c   Ying, Yibin ^a,c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA JILIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INSTITUTE   (China)

Author keywords

Binocular stereo vision; Circle regression; Depth map; Overlapping; Recognition

Indexed keywords

FRUITS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING;

BINOCULAR STEREO VISION; CIRCLE REGRESSION; DEPTH MAP; OVERLAPPING; RECOGNITION;

STEREO VISION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; COLOR; HERB; RECOGNITION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84904669294     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2014.05.006     Document Type: Article

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