Automated Mobile System for Accurate Outdoor Tree Crop Enumeration Using an Uncalibrated Camera

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Nguyen, Thuy Tuong ; Slaughter, David C. ; Hanson, Bradley D. ; Barber, Andrew ; Freitas, Amy ; Robles, Daniel ; Whelan, Erin (2015)
  • Publisher: MDPI
  • Journal: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), volume 15, issue 8, pages 18,427-18,442 (issn: 1424-8220, eissn: 1424-8220)
  • Related identifiers: pmc: PMC4570329, doi: 10.3390/s150818427
  • Subject: perspective transform | plant counting | TP1-1185 | projection histogram | homography transform | tree crop enumeration | uncalibrated camera | Chemical technology | Article
    acm: ComputingMethodologies_IMAGEPROCESSINGANDCOMPUTERVISION
This paper demonstrates an automated computer vision system for outdoor tree crop enumeration in a seedling nursery. The complete system incorporates both hardware components (including an embedded microcontroller, an odometry encoder, and an uncalibrated digital color ... View more
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