Forero Manuel G, Mambuscay Claudia L, Monroy María F, Miranda Sergio L, Méndez Dehyro, Valencia Milton Orlando, Gomez Selvaraj Michael
Semillero Lún, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Ibagué, Ibagué 730002, Colombia.
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Cali 763537, Colombia.
Plants (Basel). 2021 Aug 28;10(9):1791. doi: 10.3390/plants10091791.
Precision agriculture has greatly benefited from advances in machine vision and image processing techniques. The use of feature descriptors and detectors allows to find distinctive keypoints in an image and the use of this approach for agronomical applications has become a widespread field of study. By combining near infrared (NIR) images, acquired with a modified Nikon D80 camera, and visible spectrum (VIS) images, acquired with a Nikon D300s, a proper crop identification could be obtained. Still, the use of different sensors brings an image matching challenge due to the difference between cameras and the possible distortions from each imaging technique. The aim of this paper is to compare the performance of several feature descriptors and detectors by comparing near infrared and visual spectral bands in rice crop images. Therefore, a group of 20 different scenes with different cameras and growth stages in a rice crop were evaluated. Thus, red, green, blue (RGB) and L, a, b (CIE Lab*) channels were extracted from VIS images in order to compare the matches obtained between each of them and the corresponding NIR image. The BRISK, SURF, SIFT, ORB, KAZE, and AKAZE methods were implemented, which act as descriptors and detectors. Additionally, a combination was made between the FAST algorithm for the detection of keypoints with the BRIEF, BRISK, and FREAK methods for features description. BF and FLANN matching methods were used. The algorithms were implemented in Python using OpenCV library. The green channel presented the highest number of correct matches in all methods. In turn, the method that presented the highest performance both in time and in the number of correct matches was the combination of the FAST feature detector and the BRISK descriptor.
精准农业从机器视觉和图像处理技术的进步中受益匪浅。特征描述符和检测器的使用能够在图像中找到独特的关键点,并且这种方法在农艺应用中的使用已成为一个广泛的研究领域。通过将使用改装后的尼康D80相机获取的近红外(NIR)图像与使用尼康D300s相机获取的可见光谱(VIS)图像相结合,可以实现对作物的准确识别。然而,由于相机之间的差异以及每种成像技术可能产生的畸变,使用不同的传感器带来了图像匹配的挑战。本文的目的是通过比较水稻作物图像中的近红外和可见光谱带,来比较几种特征描述符和检测器的性能。因此,对一组20个不同场景进行了评估,这些场景涉及不同的相机和水稻作物的不同生长阶段。因此,从VIS图像中提取红色、绿色、蓝色(RGB)通道以及L、a、b(CIE Lab*)通道,以便比较它们与相应NIR图像之间获得的匹配情况。实现了BRISK、SURF、SIFT、ORB、KAZE和AKAZE方法,这些方法既作为描述符又作为检测器。此外,还将用于关键点检测的FAST算法与用于特征描述的BRIEF、BRISK和FREAK方法进行了组合。使用了BF和FLANN匹配方法。这些算法使用OpenCV库在Python中实现。绿色通道在所有方法中呈现出最高数量的正确匹配。反过来,在时间和正确匹配数量方面表现最佳的方法是FAST特征检测器和BRISK描述符的组合。