Hevea Leaves Boundary Identification based on Morphological Transformation and Edge Detection Features

Sule Tekkesinoglu, Mohd Shafry Mohd Rahim, Amjad Rehman, Ismail Mat Amin, Tanzila Saba
2014 Research Journal of Applied Sciences Engineering and Technology  
The goal of this study is to present a concept to identify overlapping rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensisscientific name) leaf boundaries. Basically rubber tree leaves show similarity to each other and they may contain similar information such as color, texture or shape of leaves. In fact rubber tree leaves are naturally in class of palmate leaves, it means that numbers of leaves are joining at their base. So it reflects the information of the position of the leaves whether the leaves are
more » ... d or separated. Therefore, this unique feature could be used to distinguish particular leaves from others clone to identify the type of trees. This study addresses the problem of identifying the overlapped leaves with complex background. The morphological transformation is often applied in order to obtain the foreground object and the background location as well. However, it does not yield satisfactory results in order to get boundaries information. This study, presents on improved approach to identify boundary of rubber tree leaves based on morphological operation and edge detection methods. The outcome of this fused algorithm exhibits promising results for identifying the leaf boundaries of rubber trees.
doi:10.19026/rjaset.7.551 fatcat:tvgx2tx2u5cwbd4bsrn7zbb5km