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ArticleScientific reports2018

Unsupervised Segmentation of Greenhouse Plant Images Based on Statistical Method.

Ping Zhang, Lihong Xu

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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Ping ZhangCollege of Electronics and Information Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.
Lihong XuCollege of Electronics and Information Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. xulhk@163.com.

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Abstract

Complicated image scene of the agricultural greenhouse plant images makes it very difficult to obtain precise manual labeling, leading to the hardship of getting the accurate training set of the conditional random field (CRF). Considering this problem, this paper proposed an unsupervised conditional random field image segmentation algorithm ULCRF (Unsupervised Learning Conditional Random Field), which can perform fast unsupervised segmentation of greenhouse plant images, and further the plant organs in the image, i.e. fruits, leaves and stems, are segmented. The main idea of this algorithm is to calculate the unary potential, namely the initial label of the Dense CRF, by the unsupervised learning model LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation). In view of the ever-changing image features at different stages of fruit growth, a multi-resolution ULCRF is proposed to improve the accuracy of image segmentation in the middle stage and late stage of the fruit growth. An image is down-sampled twice to obtain three layers of different resolution images, and the features of each layer are interrelated with each other. Experiment results show that the proposed method can segment greenhouse plant images in an unsupervised method automatically and obtain a high segmentation accuracy together with a high extraction precision of the fruit part.

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Greenhouse EffectAlgorithmsCrops, AgriculturalImage Processing, Computer-AssistedModels, StatisticalUnsupervised Machine Learning

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PMID29535402
PMCPMC5849718

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