Aerial Images and Convolutional Neural Network for Cotton Bloom Detection

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 8, Issue , 2018, Pages

  Xu, Rui ^a   Li, Changying ^a   Paterson, Andrew H ^b   Jiang, Yu ^a   Sun, Shangpeng ^a   Robertson, Jon S ^b  

^a University of Georgia   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

bloom; convolutional neural network; cotton; flower; phenotyping; point cloud; unmanned aerial vehicle

Indexed keywords

EID: 85119135186     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.02235     Document Type: Article

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