کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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527763 | 869355 | 2013 | 20 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
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• We use a global shape model to segment leaves in complex natural images.
• Prior knowledge and shape constraints improve segmentation performance.
• We designed explicit botany-inspired descriptors for local shapes.
• Information is combined to classify leaf images into a list of species.
• Dedicated high-level features prove to perform better than generic statistical ones.
With the aim of elaborating a mobile application, accessible to anyone and with educational purposes, we present a method for tree species identification that relies on dedicated algorithms and explicit botany-inspired descriptors. Focusing on the analysis of leaves, we developed a working process to help recognize species, starting from a picture of a leaf in a complex natural background. A two-step active contour segmentation algorithm based on a polygonal leaf model processes the image to retrieve the contour of the leaf. Features we use afterwards are high-level geometrical descriptors that make a semantic interpretation possible, and prove to achieve better performance than more generic and statistical shape descriptors alone. We present the results, both in terms of segmentation and classification, considering a database of 50 European broad-leaved tree species, and an implementation of the system is available in the iPhone application Folia.1
Journal: Computer Vision and Image Understanding - Volume 117, Issue 10, October 2013, Pages 1482–1501