An effective classification system for separating sugar beets and weeds for precision farming applications

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2016-June, Issue , 2016, Pages 5157-5163

  Lottes, P ^a   Hoeferlin, M ^b   Sander, S ^b   Muter, M ^c   Schulze, P ^a   Stachniss, Lammers C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b BOSCH Deepfield Robotics   (Germany)

^c HYDAC System GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CROPS; DECISION TREES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MARKOV PROCESSES; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS; PERCEPTION SYSTEMS; PRECISION FARMING; RANDOM FOREST CLASSIFICATION; SUGAR BEET FIELDS;

SUGAR BEETS;

EID: 84977512936     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2016.7487720     Document Type: Conference Paper

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