WEEDS IDENTIFICATION IN NATURAL ENVIRONMENT Russian patent published in 2020 - IPC G06K9/00 G06T7/11 

FIELD: information technology.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to means of optical identification of objects. Method includes obtaining a digital image containing data representing a weed at an early stage of development in a natural environment among the cultivated crop, together with associated metadata, outlining the leaf areas, and determining whether the weed is a single-nucleated plant or a double-seed plant. Besides, method includes detection of weed development stage, detection of weed type identified by weed name and probability of detection accuracy, using at least one of a plurality of obtained metadata and a plurality of metadata detected during contouring, during detection, whether the weed is a single-nucleus plant or a double-seed plant, and during detection of stage of development of weeds, as input parameters for a set of classifiers having access to data storage system, containing names of types of weeds together with multiple sets of metadata for each type of weed.

EFFECT: technical result consists in improvement of accuracy of determination of weeds in natural environment.

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