Localisation of litchi in an unstructured environment using binocular stereo vision

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 145, Issue , 2016, Pages 39-51

  Wang, Chenglin ^a   Zou, Xiangjun ^a   Tang, Yunchao ^b   Luo, Lufeng ^a   Feng, Wenxian ^b  

^a SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Binocular stereo vision; Litchi recognition; Stereo matching; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BINS; IMAGE MATCHING; STEREO VISION; TEMPLATE MATCHING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

BINOCULAR STEREO VISION; LITCHI RECOGNITION; MEASURING DISTANCES; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; RECOGNITION ALGORITHM; RECOGNITION METHODS; STEREO MATCHING; UNSTRUCTURED ENVIRONMENTS;

STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 84982286517     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2016.02.004     Document Type: Article

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