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

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 camera) and software algorithms (including microcontroller algorithms and the proposed algorithm for tree crop enumeration) required to obtain robust performance in a natural outdoor environment. The enumeration system uses a three-step image analysis process based upon: (1) an orthographic plant projection method integrating a perspective transform with automatic parameter estimation; (2) a plant counting method based on projection histograms; and (3) a double-counting avoidance method based on a homography transform. Experimental results demonstrate the ability to count large numbers of plants automatically with no human effort. Results show that, for tree seedlings having a height up to 40 cm and a within-row tree spacing of approximately 10 cm, the algorithms successfully estimated the number of plants with an average accuracy of 95.2% for trees within a single image and 98% for counting of the whole plant population in a large sequence of images

Paradigmas de aprendizaje automático aplicados a la teledetección: imágenes RGB e imágenes multiespectrales.

213 p.La tendencia actual en el uso de sensores para recopilar datos georreferenciados con una alta redundancia, se basa en la aplicación de métodos robustos y automatizados para extraer información geoespacial. Los resultados derivan en un cambio de paradigmas en tecnologías geoespaciales, que hasta este momento no han generado un límite en su aplicación. Sumado a ello, los avances en tecnologías sobre ordenadores, aprendizaje máquina, detección de patrones y visión computacional muestran una clara tendencia a la generación de estudios avanzados sobre imágenes, lo cual impulsa a la investigación de la información geoespacial con un progreso exponencial.El presente trabajo realiza un recorrido sobre paradigmas de aprendizaje automático aplicados en imágenes aéreas (RGB) y satelitales (multiespectrales), metodologías que han sido aplicadas en campo con interesantes resultados

Paradigmas de aprendizaje automático aplicados a la teledetección: imágenes RGB e imágenes multiespectrales.

213 p.La tendencia actual en el uso de sensores para recopilar datos georreferenciados con una alta redundancia, se basa en la aplicación de métodos robustos y automatizados para extraer información geoespacial. Los resultados derivan en un cambio de paradigmas en tecnologías geoespaciales, que hasta este momento no han generado un límite en su aplicación. Sumado a ello, los avances en tecnologías sobre ordenadores, aprendizaje máquina, detección de patrones y visión computacional muestran una clara tendencia a la generación de estudios avanzados sobre imágenes, lo cual impulsa a la investigación de la información geoespacial con un progreso exponencial.El presente trabajo realiza un recorrido sobre paradigmas de aprendizaje automático aplicados en imágenes aéreas (RGB) y satelitales (multiespectrales), metodologías que han sido aplicadas en campo con interesantes resultados

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

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 camera) and software algorithms (including microcontroller algorithms and the proposed algorithm for tree crop enumeration) required to obtain robust performance in a natural outdoor environment. The enumeration system uses a three-step image analysis process based upon: (1) an orthographic plant projection method integrating a perspective transform with automatic parameter estimation; (2) a plant counting method based on projection histograms; and (3) a double-counting avoidance method based on a homography transform. Experimental results demonstrate the ability to count large numbers of plants automatically with no human effort. Results show that, for tree seedlings having a height up to 40 cm and a within-row tree spacing of approximately 10 cm, the algorithms successfully estimated the number of plants with an average accuracy of 95.2% for trees within a single image and 98% for counting of the whole plant population in a large sequence of images

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

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 camera) and software algorithms (including microcontroller algorithms and the proposed algorithm for tree crop enumeration) required to obtain robust performance in a natural outdoor environment. The enumeration system uses a three-step image analysis process based upon: (1) an orthographic plant projection method integrating a perspective transform with automatic parameter estimation; (2) a plant counting method based on projection histograms; and (3) a double-counting avoidance method based on a homography transform. Experimental results demonstrate the ability to count large numbers of plants automatically with no human effort. Results show that, for tree seedlings having a height up to 40 cm and a within-row tree spacing of approximately 10 cm, the algorithms successfully estimated the number of plants with an average accuracy of 95.2% for trees within a single image and 98% for counting of the whole plant population in a large sequence of images