Acquiring and preprocessing leaf images for automated plant identification: understanding the tradeoff between effort and information gain

Abstract Background Automated species identification is a long term research subject. Contrary to flowers and fruits, leaves are available throughout most of the year. Offering margin and texture to characterize a species, they are the most studied organ for automated identification. Substantially m...

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Main Authors: Michael Rzanny, Marco Seeland, Jana Wäldchen, Patrick Mäder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-11-01
Series:Plant Methods
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13007-017-0245-8