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Registration and fusion of close-range multimodal wheat images in field conditions
Dandrifosse, Sébastien; Carlier, Alexis; Dumont, Benjamin et al.
2021In Remote Sensing
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Keywords :
image registration; proxy-sensing; high-throughput phenotyping; winter wheat; thermography; multispectral
Abstract :
[en] Multimodal images fusion has the potential to enrich the information gathered by multisensor plant phenotyping platforms. Fusion of images from multiple sources is, however, hampered by the technical lock of image registration. The aim of this paper is to provide a solution to the registration and fusion of multimodal wheat images in field conditions and at close range. Eight registration methods were tested on nadir wheat images acquired by a pair of red, green and blue (RGB) cameras, a thermal camera and a multispectral camera array. The most accurate method, relying on a local transformation, aligned the images with an average error of 2 mm but was not reliable for thermal images. More generally, the suggested registration method and the preprocesses necessary before fusion (plant mask erosion, pixel intensity averaging) would depend on the application. As a consequence, the main output of this study was to identify four registration-fusion strategies: (i) the REAL-TIME strategy solely based on the cameras’ positions, (ii) the FAST strategy suitable for all types of images tested, (iii) and (iv) the ACCURATE and HIGHLY ACCURATE strategies handling local distortion but unable to deal with images of very different natures. These suggestions are, however, limited to the methods compared in this study. Further research should investigate how recent cutting-edge registration methods would perform on the specific case of wheat canopy.
Disciplines :
Computer science
Author, co-author :
Dandrifosse, Sébastien ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département GxABT > Biosystems Dynamics and Exchanges
Carlier, Alexis  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département GxABT > Biosystems Dynamics and Exchanges
Dumont, Benjamin  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département GxABT > Phytotechnie tempérée
Mercatoris, Benoît  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département GxABT > Biosystems Dynamics and Exchanges
Language :
English
Title :
Registration and fusion of close-range multimodal wheat images in field conditions
Publication date :
03 April 2021
Journal title :
Remote Sensing
eISSN :
2072-4292
Publisher :
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), Basel, Switzerland
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Funders :
Natural Resources and Environment Research Direction of the Public Service of Wallonia (Belgium): project D31-1385 PHENWHEAT
Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique - F.R.S.-FNRS: FRIA grant
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