Crop feature extraction from images with probabilistic superpixel Markov random field

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 114, Issue , 2015, Pages 247-260

  Ye, Mengni ^a,b   Cao, Zhiguo ^a,b   Yu, Zhenghong ^a,b   Bai, Xiaodong ^a,b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Multispectral Information Processing   (China)

Author keywords

Crop extraction; Fisher linear discriminant; Loopy belief propagation; Markov random field; Specularity invariant; Superpixel

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; COMPUTER VISION; CROPS; EXTRACTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; ITERATIVE METHODS; MACHINERY; MARKOV PROCESSES; PIXELS; STRUCTURAL FRAMES;

FISHER LINEAR DISCRIMINANTS; LOOPY BELIEF PROPAGATION; MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS; SPECULARITIES; SUPER PIXELS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; AUTOMATION; COLOR; CROP PLANT; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MARKOV CHAIN; PIXEL; PROBABILITY; SEGMENTATION; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 84937880107     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2015.04.010     Document Type: Article

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