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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2015

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

Thuy Tuong Nguyen, David C Slaughter, Bradley D Hanson, Andrew Barber, Amy Freitas, Daniel Robles, Erin Whelan

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Thuy Tuong NguyenDepartment of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA. thnguyen@ucdavis.edu.
David C SlaughterDepartment of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA. dcslaughter@ucdavis.edu.
Bradley D HansonDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA. bhanson@ucdavis.edu.
Andrew BarberDepartment of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA. abarber@ucdavis.edu.
Amy FreitasDepartment of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA. asfreitas@ucdavis.edu.
Daniel RoblesDepartment of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA. drrobles@ucdavis.edu.
Erin WhelanDepartment of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA. emwhelan@ucdavis.edu.
University of California, Davis · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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.

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AutomationAlgorithmsCalibrationCaliforniaCrops, AgriculturalDatabases as TopicFertilizersImage Processing, Computer-AssistedPhotographyTreesFertilizershomography transformperspective transformplant countingprojection histogramtree crop enumerationuncalibrated camera

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PMID26225982
PMCPMC4570329
OpenAlexW1835536818

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