A low-cost system to detect bunches of grapes in natural environment from color images

  • Authors:
  • Manuel J. C. S. Reis;Raul Morais;Carlos Pereira;Olga Contente;Miguel Bacelar;Salviano Soares;António Valente;José Baptista;Paulo J. S. G. Ferreira;José Bulas-Cruz

  • Affiliations:
  • IEETA/UTAD, ECT, Dept. Engenharias, Portugal;CITAB/UTAD, ECT, Dept. Engenharias;UTAD, ECT, Dept. Engenharias;Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Viseu, Dep.Eng.Mec.Ges.Ind., Viseu;UTAD, ECT, Dept. Engenharias;IEETA/UTAD, ECT, Dept. Engenharias, Portugal;IEETA/UTAD, ECT, Dept. Engenharias, Portugal;UTAD, ECT, Dept. Engenharias;IEETA/Universidade de Aveiro, Campus Univ. Santiago, Aveiro;UTAD, ECT, Dept. Engenharias

  • Venue:
  • ACIVS'11 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Advanced concepts for intelligent vision systems
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Despite the benefits of precision agriculture and precision viticulture production systems, its adoption rate in the Portuguese Douro Demarcated Region remains low. One of the most demanding tasks in wine making is harvesting. Even for humans, the environment makes grape detection difficult, especially when the grapes and leaves have a similar color, which is generally the case for white grapes. In this paper, we propose a system for the detection and location, in the natural environment, of bunches of grapes in color images. The system is also able to distinguish between white and red grapes, at the same time, it calculates the location of the bunch stem. The proposed system achieved 97% and 91% correct classifications for red and white grapes, respectively.