Locally Oriented Anisotropic Image Diffusion: Application to Phenotyping of Seedlings

Landry Benoit, David Rousseau, Étienne Belin, Didier Demilly, François Chapeau-Blondeau, Carolyne Dürr

2013

Abstract

A variant of the Perona-Malik anisotropic diffusion equation is introduced for the segmentation of multiple objects with crossings. The diffusion is automatically applied at the crossings locations along the main orientations of the objects. Application of this process is given for illustration on an original problem of plant imaging with the monitoring of the elongation of multiple crossing seedlings.

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Benoit L., Rousseau D., Belin É., Demilly D., Chapeau-Blondeau F. and Dürr C. (2013). Locally Oriented Anisotropic Image Diffusion: Application to Phenotyping of Seedlings . In Proceedings of GEODIFF 2013 - Volume 1: GEODIFF, (VISIGRAPP 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-49-5, pages 3-9. DOI: 10.5220/0004330100030009


in Bibtex Style

@conference{geodiff13,
author={Landry Benoit and David Rousseau and Étienne Belin and Didier Demilly and François Chapeau-Blondeau and Carolyne Dürr},
title={Locally Oriented Anisotropic Image Diffusion: Application to Phenotyping of Seedlings},
booktitle={Proceedings of GEODIFF 2013 - Volume 1: GEODIFF, (VISIGRAPP 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={3-9},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004330100030009},
isbn={978-989-8565-49-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of GEODIFF 2013 - Volume 1: GEODIFF, (VISIGRAPP 2013)
TI - Locally Oriented Anisotropic Image Diffusion: Application to Phenotyping of Seedlings
SN - 978-989-8565-49-5
AU - Benoit L.
AU - Rousseau D.
AU - Belin É.
AU - Demilly D.
AU - Chapeau-Blondeau F.
AU - Dürr C.
PY - 2013
SP - 3
EP - 9
DO - 10.5220/0004330100030009