کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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1711388 | 1013073 | 2013 | 10 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
This article presents a new method for strawberry detection for use in a strawberry harvesting robot. The method is based on a histogram of oriented gradients (HOG) descriptor associated with a support vector machine (SVM) classifier. The detection involves two stages. First, strawberry-like regions are detected from HSV (hue, saturation, value) colour information. The HOG descriptor, calculated using five regions of interest (ROI), is input to an HOG/SVM classifier, which detects the strawberries. The performance of the model was verified by experiments. The vector sizes were effectively reduced and a higher detection speed was achieved without compromising accuracy (relative to conventional approaches). The proposed classifier achieves high detection accuracy (87%) in a reasonable run time, and can appropriately handle slightly overlapping strawberries.
► New method to detect strawberries for strawberry harvesting robot was presented.
► Two-stage approach combined the HSV colour information and HOG descriptor.
► Strawberry region divided into 5 ROI to deal with slightly overlapping fruit.
► Optimal parameters sped up detection process while maintaining comparably accuracy.
Journal: Biosystems Engineering - Volume 115, Issue 2, June 2013, Pages 144–153