Automatic fruit count on coffee branches using computer vision

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 137, Issue , 2017, Pages 9-22

  Ramos, P J ^a,b   Prieto, F A ^b   Montoya, E C ^a   Oliveros, C E ^a  

^a Centro Nacional de Investigaciones de Café   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Coffee; Fruits on branches; Harvest; Linear model

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; COFFEE; COMPUTER VISION; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE PROCESSING; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION;

DIFFERENT DENSITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; IMAGE ACQUISITION SYSTEMS; IMAGE PROCESSING ALGORITHM; LINEAR ESTIMATION; LINEAR MODELING; MACHINE VISION SYSTEMS; NONDESTRUCTIVE METHODS;

FRUITS;

ALGORITHM; COFFEE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRUIT; HARVESTING; IMAGE PROCESSING; MODEL VALIDATION; NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESEARCH WORK; RIPENING;

EID: 85015986841     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2017.03.010     Document Type: Article

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