Automatic Detection of White Grapes in NaturalEnvironment Using Image Processing

摘要

The rate of adoption of Precision Agriculture and Precision Viticultureproduction systems in the Douro Demarcated Region remains low. We believe thatone way to raise it is to address challenging real-world problems whose solutionoffers a clear benefit to the viticulturist. For example, one of the most demandingtasks in wine making is harvesting. Even for humans, the detection of grapes intheir natural environment is not always easy. White grapes are particularly difficultto detect, since their color is similar to that of the leafs. Here we present a low costsystem for the detection of white grapes in natural environment color images. Thesystem also calculates the probable location of the bunch stem and achieves 91% ofcorrect classifications.