Title
A Pipeline for Trunk Localisation Using LiDAR in Trellis Structured Orchards.
Abstract
Autonomous operation and information processing in an orchard environment requires an accurate inventory of the trees. Individual trees must be identified and catalogued in order to represent their distinct measures such as yield count, crop health and canopy volume. Hand labelling individual trees is a labour-intensive and time-consuming process. This paper presents a trunk localisation pipeline for identification of individual trees in an apple orchard using ground based LiDAR data. The trunk candidates are detected using a Hough Transform, and the orchard inventory is refined using a Hidden Semi-Markov Model. Such a model leverages from contextual information provided by the structured/repetitive nature of an orchard. Operating at an apple orchard near Melbourne, Australia, which hosts a modern Guttingen V trellis structure, we were able to perform tree segmentation with 89% accuracy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/978-3-319-07488-7_31
Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
Field
DocType
Volume
Orchard,Information processing,Segmentation,Simulation,Computer science,Hough transform,Lidar,Point cloud,Mixture model,Canopy
Conference
105
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1610-7438
1
0.38
References 
Authors
4
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Suchet Bargoti1583.28
James Patrick Underwood244239.37
Juan I. Nieto393988.52
Salah Sukkarieh41142141.84