Autonomous platform and information system (API) for crop and weed monitoring

http://www.cs.auc.dk/~api/

2001 version

Machine vision identification of weed species based on active

shape modelsHenning T. Søgård DIAS, Dept. of

EngineeringTorben Heisel DIAS, Dept. of Crop

Protection

Database of weed imagesEquipment for image acquisition

Colour bar

Canon PowershotG1 Digital Camera,

(2048 x 1536 pixels)

150 mm

200 mm

Database of weed images Image scenes

> 500 images

Database of weed images Individual weed plants

070601_010.tif

070601_010_CHEAL_0467_1004.tif

About 500 image of

individual plants(24 species)

Identification of weed speciesTraining the software (ASM-Toolkit)

CHEAL

White Goosefoot

Chenopodium

Album)

(ASM = Active Shape Model)

Isolated patches

Diffuse patches

Sampling

Sampling

Initial sampling route

Initial sampling route

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