Fast segmentation of colour apple image under all-weather natural conditions for vision recognition of picking robots

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Ji, Wei ^a   Meng, Xiangli ^a   Tao, Yun ^a   Xu, Bo ^a   Zhao, Dean ^a  

^a JIANGSU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Adaptive mean shift; Colour apple images; Normalized cut segmentation; Picking robot

Indexed keywords

COLOR; FRUITS; ROBOTS;

ADAPTIVE CLUSTERING; ADAPTIVE MEAN SHIFTS; DECISION-THEORETIC ROUGH SETS; NORMALIZED CUTS; NUMBER OF CLUSTERS; PICKING ROBOT; REAL TIME PERFORMANCE; SEGMENTATION METHODS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 85003017715     PISSN: 17298806     EISSN: 17298814     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5772/62265     Document Type: Article

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