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DAGM 2003: Pattern Recognition pp 482–489Cite as

A Region Based Seed Detection for Root Detection in Minirhizotron Images

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Automatic analysis of plant root images is very important for the analysis of root architecture and morphology as requested by ecological, agronomic and biological studies. Extending the approach in [1] we improve the detection of special root parts called seeds which are expanded to complete roots in a subsequent step. Replacing the original contour based seed detection by a region based one allows us to take more global information into account. As the seed detection influences the overall performance strongly the such acquired improvements benefit the whole root detection significantly.

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  1. Institute of Computer Science, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, D-06099, Halle, Germany

    Gregor Erz & Stefan Posch

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  1. Gregor Erz
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  1. Otto-von-Guericke University, 39106, Magdeburg, Germany

    Bernd Michaelis

  2. Institute for Electronics, Signal Processing and Communications (IESK), Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, P.O. Box 4120, D-39016, Magdeburg, Germany

    Gerald Krell

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Erz, G., Posch, S. (2003). A Region Based Seed Detection for Root Detection in Minirhizotron Images. In: Michaelis, B., Krell, G. (eds) Pattern Recognition. DAGM 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2781. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45243-0_62

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