期刊
PRECISION AGRICULTURE
卷 19, 期 2, 页码 218-237出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11119-017-9511-z
关键词
Image processing; Vegetation segmentation; High dynamic range; Shadow detection and remove; Weed control
资金
- Interreg IVa
- European Fund for the Regional Development of the European Union
- Product Board for Arable Farming
A vision-based weed control robot for agricultural field application requires robust vegetation segmentation. The output of vegetation segmentation is the fundamental element in the subsequent process of weed and crop discrimination as well as weed control. There are two challenging issues for robust vegetation segmentation under agricultural field conditions: (1) to overcome strongly varying natural illumination; (2) to avoid the influence of shadows under direct sunlight conditions. A way to resolve the issue of varying natural illumination is to use high dynamic range (HDR) camera technology. HDR cameras, however, do not resolve the shadow issue. In many cases, shadows tend to be classified during the segmentation as part of the foreground, i.e., vegetation regions. This study proposes an algorithm for ground shadow detection and removal, which is based on color space conversion and a multilevel threshold, and assesses the advantage of using this algorithm in vegetation segmentation under natural illumination conditions in an agricultural field. Applying shadow removal improved the performance of vegetation segmentation with an average improvement of 20, 4.4, and 13.5% in precision, specificity and modified accuracy, respectively. The average processing time for vegetation segmentation with shadow removal was 0.46 s, which is acceptable for real-time application (< 1 s required). The proposed ground shadow detection and removal method enhances the performance of vegetation segmentation under natural illumination conditions in the field and is feasible for real-time field applications.
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