Machine-vision weed density estimation for real-time, outdoor lighting conditions
Machine-vision weed density estimation for real-time, outdoor lighting conditions
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实时室外照明条件下的机器视觉杂草密度估计
DOI:
10.13031/2013.13355
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发表时间:
1999
影响因子:
1.5
通讯作者:
L. Tian
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文献类型:
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作者:
B. Steward;L. Tian
A system to estimate the weed density between two rows of soybeans was developed. An environmentally
adaptive segmentation algorithm (EASA) was used to segment the plants from the background of the image. The effect of
two image data transformations on the segmentation performance of the EASA was investigated, and the RGB-IV1V2
transformation resulted in significantly higher quality segmentation results based on morphological opening and closing
pixel loss over the RGB-rgb transformation. An adaptive scanning algorithm (ASA) was developed and used to
automatically detect crop inter-row edges and to estimate the number of weeds in the inter-row area. Two sets of images
were acquired under sunny and overcast sky conditions. The ASA-detected crop row edge positions were significantly
correlated with the manually detected crop row positions, with the distribution skewed towards positions internal to the
row. ASA weed density estimates were highly correlated with manual weed counts for both lighting conditions. However,
when a limited range of the data was considered, much lower correlations resulted, revealing a loss of spatial color
resolution due to the transmission of the video signal. The mean execution time of the ASA was 0.038 s for 0.91 m (3 ft)
long inter-row regions showing that the algorithm met the real-time constraints necessary to be used as a sensing system
for a variable-rate herbicide applicator.