Image processing techniques were investigated for developing a guidance signal for a tractor operating on agricultural row crops. The guidance signal was computed from thresholded images segmented by a Bayes classifier. The distribution of crop canopy and soil background pixels in an image was approximated with a bimodal Gaussian distribution function. The parameters of the distribution were estimated by regression to systematically subsampled images. Run-length encoding was used to locate center points of row crop canopy blobs in the thresholded images. A heuristic line detection algorithm was used to determine the parameters defining crop row location on the image plane. Row parameters were used to compute a tractor guidance signal. Results are presented on the performance of the individual components of the algorithm.
Automatic Tractor Guidance with Computer Vision
Sae Technical Papers
1987 SAE International Off-Highway and Powerplant Congress and Exposition ; 1987
1987-09-01
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Englisch
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