Weed Classification using Histogram Maxima with Threshold for Selective Herbicide Applications

Information on weed distribution within the field is necessary to implement spatially variable herbicide application. Since hand labor is costly, an automated weed control system could be feasible. This paper deals with the development of an algorithm for real time specific weed recognition system based on Histogram Maxima with threshold of an image that is used for the weed classification. This algorithm is specifically developed to classify images into broad and narrow class for real-time selective herbicide application. The developed system has been tested on weeds in the lab, which have shown that the system to be very effectiveness in weed identification. Further the results show a very reliable performance on images of weeds taken under varying field conditions. The analysis of the results shows over 95 percent classification accuracy over 140 sample images (broad and narrow) with 70 samples from each category of weeds.

Authors:

• Irshad Ahmad
• Abdul Muhamin Naeem
• Muhammad Islam
• Shahid Nawaz

Keywords:

• Image processing
• real-time recognition
• weeddetection.

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