Wheat ear counting in-field conditions: High throughput and low-cost approach using RGB images

Plant Methods

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Fernandez Gallego, Jose A ^a   Kefauver, Shawn C ^a   Gutiérrez, Nieves Aparicio ^b   Nieto Taladriz, María Teresa ^c   Araus, José Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO AGRARIO DE CASTILLA Y LEÓN   (Spain)

^c INIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Digital image processing; Ear counting; Field phenotyping; Find maxima; Laplacian frequency filter; Median filter; Wheat

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044086686     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13007-018-0289-4     Document Type: Article

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