Fine-grained maize tassel trait characterization with multi-view representations

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 118, Issue , 2015, Pages 143-158

  Lu, Hao ^a   Cao, Zhiguo ^a   Xiao, Yang ^a   Fang, Zhiwen ^a   Zhu, Yanjun ^a   Xian, Ke ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Image segmentation; Maize tassel; Object detection; Trait characterization

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OBJECT DETECTION;

ENVIRONMENTAL VARIATIONS; MACHINE VISION SYSTEMS; MAIZE TASSEL; MULTIPLE FEATURES; PRODUCTION ENHANCEMENT; RECENT RESEARCHES; STATE-OF-THE-ART APPROACH; YIELD ESTIMATION;

COMPUTER VISION;

AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; COMPUTER VISION; CULTIVAR; DATA SET; LABOR; MAIZE; PHENOTYPE; RESEARCH WORK; SEGMENTATION;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84941622266     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2015.08.027     Document Type: Article

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