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17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'04) - Volume 1
pp. 27-30
Automatic Recognition of Blooming Flowers
Takeshi Saitoh, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan
Kimiya Aoki, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan
Toyohisa Kaneko, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan
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This paper describes an automatic method for recognizing a blooming flower based on a photograph taken with a digital camera in natural scene. The problem of identifying an object against the background is known to be difficult. In this paper, we employ a photograph where the object (a blooming flower) is focused but the background is defocused. For extracting a flower region, we propose a new method that extracts a boundary by selecting a route with minimizing a sum of the local cost divided by the route length. Experiments were conducted for 600 pictures (20 pictures each for 30 species). A successful boundary extraction rate of 97% and a flower recognition rate of 90% were obtained.
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Takeshi Saitoh, Kimiya Aoki, Toyohisa Kaneko,
"Automatic Recognition of Blooming Flowers,"
icpr,
pp. 27-30,
17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'04) - Volume 1,
2004
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