Region-based colour modelling for joint crop and maize tassel segmentation

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 147, Issue , 2016, Pages 139-150

  Lu, Hao ^a   Cao, Zhiguo ^a   Xiao, Yang ^a   Li, Yanan ^a   Zhu, Yanjun ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Colour modelling; Crop segmentation; Maize tassel; Neural networks; Region proposals

Indexed keywords

COLOR; COMPUTER VISION; CROPS; EXTRACTION; GRAPHIC METHODS; ITERATIVE METHODS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

COMPUTER VISION APPLICATIONS; EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCIES; ENSEMBLE NEURAL NETWORK; GRAPH-BASED SEGMENTATION; MAIZE TASSEL; REGION BASED APPROACH; REGION PROPOSALS; STATE-OF-THE-ART APPROACH;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84967113415     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2016.04.007     Document Type: Article

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