Robust tomato recognition for robotic harvesting using feature images fusion

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Zhao, Yuanshen ^a   Gong, Liang ^a   Huang, Yixiang ^a   Liu, Chengliang ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Image fusion; Low cost; Multiple feature images; Robotic harvesting; Tomato recognition

Indexed keywords

COLOR; COSTS; FRUITS; HARVESTING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; ROBOTICS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ADAPTIVE THRESHOLD ALGORITHM; AGRICULTURAL ENVIRONMENTS; LOW COSTS; MORPHOLOGY OPERATIONS; MULTIPLE FEATURE IMAGES; RECOGNITION ALGORITHM; TOMATO RECOGNITION; WAVELET TRANSFORMATIONS;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 84957014280     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s16020173     Document Type: Article

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