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Spots and color based ripeness evaluation of tobacco leaves for automatic harvesting

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In this paper, we propose a model based on ripeness evaluation for classification of tobacco leaves useful for automatic harvesting in a complex agriculture environment. The CIELAB color space model is used to segment the leaf from the background. We propose a spot detection algorithm to estimate density of maturity spots on a leaf using Laplacian filter and Sobel edge detector. We have computed degree of ripeness of leaf by density of mature spots on a leaf and greenness of leaf. Then, leaves are classified into three classes viz., ripe, unripe, and over-ripe based on computed degree of ripeness. Experimentation is conducted on our own dataset consisting of 274 images of tobacco leaves captured in both sunny and cloudy lighting conditions in a real tobacco field. The experimental results indicate that proposed model achieves a good average classification accuracy.

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  • (2023)In-Field Tobacco Leaf Maturity Detection with an Enhanced MobileNetV1: Incorporating a Feature Pyramid Network and Attention MechanismSensors10.3390/s2313596423:13(5964)Online publication date: 27-Jun-2023
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IITM '10: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Technologies and Multimedia
December 2010
355 pages
ISBN:9781450304085
DOI:10.1145/1963564
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  1. CIELAB color space model
  2. classification
  3. spot detection algorithm
  4. threshold based classifier

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  • (2023)In-Field Tobacco Leaf Maturity Detection with an Enhanced MobileNetV1: Incorporating a Feature Pyramid Network and Attention MechanismSensors10.3390/s2313596423:13(5964)Online publication date: 27-Jun-2023
  • (2021)Ripeness Evaluation of Tobacco Leaves for Automatic Harvesting: An Approach Based on Combination of Filters and Color ModelsData Science10.1007/978-981-16-1681-5_13(197-213)Online publication date: 20-Aug-2021

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