Detection for Corn/Weed Images Using Moment Invariants by BPNN Classifier

Abstract

This study was conducted to discriminate the weed from the corn in a field combined neural network classifier with image processing technology. The corn and weed images were scanned using a colour imaging system. In the first step, an approximate location of the object of interest was determined by minimum enclosing rectangle, in which image processing was done to obtain the binary image. In the second step, the seven invariant moments were extracted from binary images and used as input to the back propagation neural network (BPNN) classifier. The training set was used to construct shape model representing the objects. The detection accuracy was enhanced by adjusting the number of neurons in the network. Experimental results showed that the BPNN classifier achieved overall detection accuracy of 94.52% with 7-28-1.