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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Image Processing, 2003. ICIP 2003. Proceedings. 2003 International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7750-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICIP.2003.1247421
