Adaptive thresholding with fusion using a RGBD sensor for red sweet-pepper detection

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 146, Issue , 2016, Pages 45-56

  Vitzrabin, Efi ^a   Edan, Yael ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Adaptive thresholding; Dynamic thresholding; Object detection; Sensor fusion; Sweet pepper

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; OBJECT DETECTION;

ADAPTIVE THRESHOLDING; DYNAMIC THRESHOLDING; FALSE POSITIVE RATES; ILLUMINATION CHANGES; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS; SENSOR FUSION; SWEET PEPPER; VARIABLE ILLUMINATION;

LIGHTING;

EID: 84983094333     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2015.12.002     Document Type: Article

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