TasselNet: Counting maize tassels in the wild via local counts regression network

Plant Methods

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Lu, Hao ^a   Cao, Zhiguo ^a   Xiao, Yang ^a   Zhuang, Bohan ^b   Shen, Chunhua ^b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Convolutional neural networks; Deep learning; Maize tassels; Object counting

Indexed keywords

EID: 85033404576     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13007-017-0224-0     Document Type: Article

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