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A Simple and Low-Cost Method for Leaf Surface Dimension Estimation Based on Digital Images

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Intelligent Systems (BRACIS 2023)

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Abstract

The leaf is the organ of the plant body that performs photosynthesis and its area is one of the morphological parameters that most respond to droughts, climate changes, and attack of pathogens, associated with the accumulation of biomass and agricultural productivity. In addition, leaf area and other surface data (for example, width and length) are widely used in studies of plant anatomy and physiology. The methods of measuring these leaf surface parameters are often complicated and costly. In this context, this work aims to develop a simple and low-cost method capable of accurately measuring the leaf surface size of plant species with significant agricultural interest. Our method extract the information through images of leaves accompanied by a scale pattern whose real area is known, captured by a simple camera. To evaluate our method, we performed experiments with images of 118 leaves of 6 species. We compared the results to the ImageJ software, which is widely used to estimate leaf dimensions from images. The results showed our method present performance similar to ImageJ. However, unlike ImageJ, our method does not require user interaction during the dimensions estimation.

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This work received financial support from the FAPEMIG process number APQ-00603-21. We thank the agencies CNPq and CAPES for their financial support in this research. And all the people who collaborated directly or indirectly on this work.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Karla Gabriele Florentino da Silva, Gabriel Barreto Calixto & Luiz Maurílio da Silva Maciel

  2. Department of Computing, Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Minas Gerais, Ouro Branco, Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Karla Gabriele Florentino da Silva, Jonas Magalhães Moreira, Luiz Maurílio da Silva Maciel & Márcio Assis Miranda

  3. Department of Natural Sciences, Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Minas Gerais, Ouro Branco, Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Leandro Elias Morais

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da Silva, K.G.F., Moreira, J.M., Calixto, G.B., da Silva Maciel, L.M., Miranda, M.A., Morais, L.E. (2023). A Simple and Low-Cost Method for Leaf Surface Dimension Estimation Based on Digital Images. In: Naldi, M.C., Bianchi, R.A.C. (eds) Intelligent Systems. BRACIS 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 14197. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45392-2_10

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