Automated visual yield estimation in vineyards

Journal of Field Robotics

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 837-860

  Nuske, Stephen ^a   Wilshusen, Kyle ^a   Achar, Supreeth ^a   Yoder, Luke ^a   Singh, Sanjiv ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION;

AVERAGE ERRORS; HIGH RESOLUTION; IMAGE MEASUREMENTS; IMAGING CONDITIONS; MOVING VEHICLES; OVERALL ACCURACIES; STRONG CLASSIFIERS; YIELD ESTIMATION;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84905719438     PISSN: 15564959     EISSN: 15564967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rob.21541     Document Type: Conference Paper

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