Agricultural robotics

SG Vougioukas - Annual review of control, robotics, and …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
A key goal of contemporary agriculture is to dramatically increase production of food, feed,
fiber, and biofuel products in a sustainable fashion, facing the pressure of diminishing farm …

Automatic detection of crop rows in maize fields with high weeds pressure

M Montalvo, G Pajares, JM Guerrero, J Romeo… - Expert Systems with …, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a new method, oriented to crop row detection in images from maize
fields with high weed pressure. The vision system is designed to be installed onboard a …

Unsupervised classification algorithm for early weed detection in row-crops by combining spatial and spectral information

M Louargant, G Jones, R Faroux, JN Paoli, T Maillot… - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
In agriculture, reducing herbicide use is a challenge to reduce health and environmental
risks while maintaining production yield and quality. Site-specific weed management is a …

Crop/weed discrimination in perspective agronomic images

C Gée, J Bossu, G Jones, F Truchetet - Computers and Electronics in …, 2008 - Elsevier
This paper presents a general method for weed infestation rate estimation for perspective
wide-view images dedicated to real-time precision spraying. A colour camera was …

A vision based row detection system for sugar beet

T Bakker, H Wouters, K Van Asselt, J Bontsema… - … and electronics in …, 2008 - Elsevier
One way of guiding autonomous vehicles through the field is using a vision based row
detection system. A new approach for row recognition is presented which is based on grey …

Automatic expert system based on images for accuracy crop row detection in maize fields

JM Guerrero, M Guijarro, M Montalvo, J Romeo… - Expert Systems with …, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper proposes an automatic expert system for accuracy crop row detection in maize
fields based on images acquired from a vision system. Different applications in maize …

Automatic detection of crop rows based on multi-ROIs

G Jiang, Z Wang, H Liu - Expert systems with applications, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper presents a new automatic and robust crop rows detection algorithm for a vision-
based agricultural machinery guidance system. The algorithm consists of five steps: gray …

Robust crop and weed segmentation under uncontrolled outdoor illumination

HY Jeon, LF Tian, H Zhu - Sensors, 2011 - mdpi.com
An image processing algorithm for detecting individual weeds was developed and
evaluated. Weed detection processes included were normalized excessive green …

A feature extraction software tool for agricultural object-based image analysis

LA Ruiz, JA Recio, A Fernández-Sarría… - … and Electronics in …, 2011 - Elsevier
A software application for automatic descriptive feature extraction from image-objects,
FETEX 2.0, is presented and described in this paper. The input data include a multispectral …

Wheat rows detection at the early growth stage based on Hough transform and vanishing point

G Jiang, X Wang, Z Wang, H Liu - Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 2016 - Elsevier
A simple and effective wheat rows detection method is presented in this paper. It includes
five steps: image segmentation, feature points extraction, candidate wheat rows estimation …