An instance-based learning approach for thresholding in crop images under different outdoor conditions

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 127, Issue , 2016, Pages 669-679

  Arroyo, Javier ^a   Guijarro, María ^a   Pajares, Gonzalo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agricultural images; Binarization; Image segmentation; Match distance; Symbolic data analysis; Thresholding

Indexed keywords

CROPS; DATA HANDLING; IMAGE MATCHING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH;

AGRICULTURAL IMAGES; BINARIZATIONS; MATCH DISTANCE; SYMBOLIC DATA ANALYSIS; THRESHOLDING;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; AUTOMATION; CROP; DATA ASSIMILATION; HISTOGRAM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEARNING; PIXEL; THRESHOLD;

EID: 84989886073     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2016.07.018     Document Type: Review

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