Detection of bird nests during mechanicalweeding by incremental background modeling and visual saliency

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 5096-5111

  Steen, Kim Arild ^a   Therkildsen, Ole Roland ^a   Green, Ole ^b   Karstoft, Henrik ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Kongskilde Industries Strategic Development   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Background modeling; Computer vision; Mechanical weeding; Obstacle detection; Visual saliency

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURE; BIRDS; COMPUTER VISION; OBSTACLE DETECTORS; PESTICIDES;

BACKGROUND MODEL; CONVENTIONAL AGRICULTURES; FOREGROUND DETECTION; MECHANICAL WEEDING; OBSTACLE DETECTION; TRUE POSITIVE RATES; VISION-BASED APPROACHES; VISUAL SALIENCY;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84928668359     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s150305096     Document Type: Article

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