Crop positioning for robotic intra-row weeding based on machine vision

International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 20-29

  Li, Nan ^a   Zhang, Chun Long ^a   Chen, Zi Wen ^a   Ma, Zeng Hong ^a   Sun, Zhe ^a   Yuan, Ting ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Zhang, Jun Xiong ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Crop sensing; Mechanical weeding; Precision agriculture; Real time image processing

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; CROPS; IMAGE MATCHING; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LOCATION; MEDIAN FILTERS; PINHOLE CAMERAS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

COMMERCIAL PRODUCTIONS; ILLUMINATION CONDITIONS; MECHANICAL WEEDING; PIN-HOLE CAMERA MODELS; POSITIONAL INFORMATION; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; REAL-TIME IMAGE PROCESSING; STATISTICAL VARIATIONS;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 84962027651     PISSN: 19346344     EISSN: 19346352     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3965/j.ijabe.20150806.1932     Document Type: Article

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