• DocumentCode
    398748
  • Title

    Tracking bees - a 3D, outdoor small object environment

  • Author

    Estivill-Castro, V. ; Lattin, D. ; Suraweera, F. ; Vithanage, V.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Comput. & Inf. Technol., Griffith Univ., Brisbane, Qld., Australia
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    14-17 Sept. 2003
  • Abstract
    The automatic tracking of bees while pollinating macadamia trees is important for the understanding of reproductive biology and fruit yield. We present techniques for tracking these small targets in an uncontrolled illumination environment and where the background is not fixed. Our results indicate we can track, based on color, bees moving in 3D in paths over 3s long (72 frames).
  • Keywords
    botany; image segmentation; image sequences; motion estimation; tracking; zoology; 3 S; bees tracking; fruit yield; image segmentation; image sequence processing; macadamia tree pollination; motion detection; motion estimation; outdoor small object environment; reproductive biology; uncontrolled illumination environment; Australia; Cameras; Crops; Image segmentation; Information technology; Insects; Lighting; Motion detection; Target tracking; Vehicles;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Image Processing, 2003. ICIP 2003. Proceedings. 2003 International Conference on
  • ISSN
    1522-4880
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7750-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICIP.2003.1247421
  • Filename
    1247421