High speed stereovision setup for position and motion estimation of fertilizer particles leaving a centrifugal spreader

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 21466-21482

  Hijazi, Bilal ^a,b,c,d   Cool, Simon ^a,d   Vangeyte, JùRgen ^a   Mertens, Koen C ^a   Cointault, Frédéric ^b   Paindavoine, Michel ^c   Pieters, Jan G ^d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL AND FISHERIES RESEARCH ILVO   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Centrifugal spreader; Fertilizer; Motion estimation; Stereovision

Indexed keywords

CENTRIFUGATION; FERTILIZERS; IMAGE MATCHING; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MOTION ESTIMATION; STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING; STEREO VISION;

2-D CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; 3D IMAGING TECHNIQUES; BINOCULAR STEREOVISION; FERTILIZER SPREADERS; IMAGE PROCESSING ALGORITHM; PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; RELATIVE ERRORS; STEREO-MATCHING;

SPREADERS;

EID: 84910147879     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s141121466     Document Type: Article

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