scholarly journals Crop Row Segmentation and Detection in Paddy Fields Based on Treble-Classification Otsu and Double-Dimensional Clustering Method

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 901
Author(s):  
Yue Yu ◽  
Yidan Bao ◽  
Jichun Wang ◽  
Hangjian Chu ◽  
Nan Zhao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Visual Navigation ◽  
Paddy Fields ◽  
Grayscale Image ◽  
Agricultural Field ◽  
Clustering Method ◽  
Adaptive Clustering ◽  
Attitude Error ◽  
Otsu Method ◽  
Validation Tests

Visual navigation is developing rapidly and is of great significance to improve agricultural automation. The most important issue involved in visual navigation is extracting a guidance path from agricultural field images. Traditional image segmentation methods may fail to work in paddy field, for the colors of weed, duckweed, and eutrophic water surface are very similar to those of real rice seedings. To deal with these problems, a crop row segmentation and detection algorithm, designed for complex paddy fields, is proposed. Firstly, the original image is transformed to the grayscale image and then the treble-classification Otsu method classifies the pixels in the grayscale image into three clusters according to their gray values. Secondly, the binary image is divided into several horizontal strips, and feature points representing green plants are extracted. Lastly, the proposed double-dimensional adaptive clustering method, which can deal with gaps inside a single crop row and misleading points between real crop rows, is applied to obtain the clusters of real crop rows and the corresponding fitting line. Quantitative validation tests of efficiency and accuracy have proven that the combination of these two methods constitutes a new robust integrated solution, with attitude error and distance error within 0.02° and 10 pixels, respectively. The proposed method achieved better quantitative results than the detection method based on typical Otsu under various conditions.

scholarly journals Segmentation of Rice Seedlings Using the YCrCb Color Space and an Improved Otsu Method

Agronomy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Liao ◽  
Yao Wang ◽  
Junnan Yin ◽  
Lu Liu ◽  
Shun Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Color Space ◽  
Computational Cost ◽  
Rice Seedling ◽  
Visual Navigation ◽  
Paddy Fields ◽  
Rice Seedlings ◽  
Illumination Variation ◽  
Search Range ◽  
Otsu Method ◽  
Green Index

Rice seedling segmentation is a fundamental process of extracting the guidance line for automated rice transplanters with a visual navigation system, which can provide crop row information to ensure the transplanter plants seedlings along the crop row without damaging seedlings. However, obtaining accurate rice seedling segmentation in paddy fields is still a challenging task. In this paper, a rice seedling segmentation method in paddy fields is proposed. The method mainly consists of two steps: image graying and threshold segmentation. In the procedure of image graying, the RGB (Red Green Blue) seedling image is first converted into the YCrCb color space and a Cg component is constructed. A color-index 2Cg-Cb-Cr is then constructed for image graying based on the excess green index (2G-R-B), which can reduce the influence of illumination variation on the equality of image graying. For the second step, an improved Otsu method is proposed to segment rice seedlings. With respect to the improved Otsu method in this research, the background variance of within class variance is weighted by a probability parameter to ensure that the method works well for both bimodal and near-unimodal histogram images, and the search range of gray levels is constrained to reduce the time to search the segmentation threshold. Experimental results indicate that the proposed method achieves better segmentation results and reduces the computational cost compared with the traditional Otsu method and other improved Otsu methods.

scholarly journals Detection method for auto guide vehicle’s walking deviation based on image thinning and Hough transform

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 252-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaohua Cao ◽  
Daofan Liu ◽  
Xiaoyu Ren
Keyword(s):  
Hough Transform ◽  
Detection Method ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Visual Navigation ◽  
Guide Line ◽  
Actual Environment ◽  
Lane Line ◽  
Image Thinning ◽  
High Level ◽  
Refinement Algorithm

Auto guide vehicle’s position deviation always appears in its walking process. Current edge approaches applied in the visual navigation field are difficult to meet the high-level requirements of complex environment in factories since they are easy to be affected by noise, which results in low measurement accuracy and unsteadiness. In order to avoid the defects of edge detection algorithm, an improved detection method based on image thinning and Hough transform is proposed to solve the problem of auto guide vehicle’s walking deviation. First, the image of lane line is preprocessed with gray processing, threshold segmentation, and mathematical morphology, and then, the refinement algorithm is employed to obtain the skeleton of the lane line, combined with Hough detection and line fitting, the equation of the guide line is generated, and finally, the value of auto guide vehicle’s walking deviation can be calculated. The experimental results show that the methodology we proposed can deal with non-ideal factors of the actual environment such as bright area, path breaks, and clutters on road, and extract the parameters of the guide line effectively, after which the value of auto guide vehicle’s walking deviation is obtained. This method is proved to be feasible for auto guide vehicle in indoor environment for visual navigation.

A Face Detection Algorithm in Color Image Based on Skin Color Segmentation

2013 ◽  
Vol 811 ◽  
pp. 417-421
Author(s):  
Shi Lei
Keyword(s):  
Face Detection ◽  
Skin Color ◽  
Color Image ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Color Segmentation ◽  
Skin Region ◽  
Otsu Method ◽  
The Face ◽  
Segmentation Image ◽  
Ellipse Area

Aiming at color images under complex background, this paper put forward a face detection algorithm based on skin color segmentation, combining the geometric characteristics. The skin region can be obtained by using skin color model and OTSU method to automatically optimize threshold segmentation image. By analyzing the characteristics of skin color region, the face position is determined by criterion of ellipse area.

scholarly journals EXTRACTION METHOD FOR CENTERLINES OF RICE SEEDLINGS BASED ON FAST-SCNN SEMANTIC SEGMENTATION

2021 ◽  
pp. 335-344
Author(s):  
Yusong Chen ◽  
Changxing Geng ◽  
Yong Wang ◽  
Guofeng Zhu ◽  
Renyuan Shen
Keyword(s):  
Color Image ◽  
Semantic Segmentation ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Rice Seedling ◽  
Visual Navigation ◽  
Corner Detection ◽  
Feature Points ◽  
Rice Seedlings ◽  
Optimal Model ◽  
Outer Contour

For the extraction of paddy rice seedling centerline, this study proposed a method based on Fast-SCNN (Fast Segmentation Convolutional Neural Network) semantic segmentation network. By training the FAST-SCNN network, the optimal model was selected to separate the seedling from the picture. Feature points were extracted using the FAST (Features from Accelerated Segment Test) corner detection algorithm after the pre-processing of original images. All the outer contours of the segmentation results were extracted, and feature point classification was carried out based on the extracted outer contour. For each class of points, Hough transformation based on known points was used to fit the seedling row centerline. It has been verified by experiments that this algorithm has high robustness in each period within three weeks after transplanting. In a 1280×1024-pixel PNG format color image, the accuracy of this algorithm is 95.9% and the average time of each frame is 158ms, which meets the real-time requirement of visual navigation in paddy field.

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