Title :
An image processing technique for estimation of betel leaf area
Author :
Soni, Amar Prasad ; Dey, Amar Kumar ; Sharma, Manisha
Author_Institution :
Department of Electronics & Telecommunication, Bhilai Institute of Technology, Durg, India
Abstract :
The green heart shaped betel leaf, in India it is known as Paan. It is useful in number of traditional remedies such as weakness of nerves, stomach disorder, headache, respiratory disorders, constipation, sore throat, inflammation, scanty or obstructed urination and wounds. There are many more traditional uses of the betel leafs. This paper includes the easy, accurate, and less expensive method of leaf area measurement. Leaf area of plants is a useful tool in physiological and agronomic studies. Investigation of betel leaf area is done over 100 leaves out of which some are included in this paper. Results are compared with the graphical technique of leaf area measurement. The advantage of this method is the easiness and the stability of precise estimation of area.
Keywords :
Agriculture; Area measurement; Estimation; Image edge detection; Image segmentation; MATLAB; betel leaf; image processing; leaf area; matlab; pixel counting;
Conference_Titel :
Electrical, Electronics, Signals, Communication and Optimization (EESCO), 2015 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Visakhapatnam, India
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-7676-8
DOI :
10.1109/EESCO.2015.7253691