Title :
An Integrated Bud Detection and Localization System for Application in Greenhouse Automation
Author :
Tarry, Cole ; Wspanialy, Patrick ; Veres, M. ; Moussa, Madeleine
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Eng., Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
Abstract :
This paper presents an integrated system for chrysanthemum bud detection that can be used to automate labour intensive tasks in floriculture greenhouses. The system will detect buds and their 3D location in order to guide a robot arm to perform selective pruning tasks on each plant. The detection algorithm is based on using radial hough transform. Testing on several samples showed promising results.
Keywords :
Hough transforms; agriculture; greenhouses; industrial robots; robot vision; 3D location; chrysanthemum bud detection; floriculture greenhouse automation; integrated bud detection and localization system; radial Hough transform; robot arm; Cameras; Color; Feature extraction; Image color analysis; Robot vision systems; Testing; greenhouse automation; radial hough; stereo vision;
Conference_Titel :
Computer and Robot Vision (CRV), 2014 Canadian Conference on
Conference_Location :
Montreal, QC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-4338-8
DOI :
10.1109/CRV.2014.53
