Stereo Vision Embedded System Proposal For Plant Phenotyping

This paper presents the design process of an embedded stereo vision system, which investigates the most relevant criteria for developing the hardware and software architectures for plant phenotyping. In other words, this paper is the result of a preliminary study in which the main motivation was the evaluation of the viability of a low-cost visual system for such field of knowledge. In addition, the implications of the adversities in an actual agricultural scenario under the system design are presented, since the system should not only meet the portability requirements but also the quality and precision for the measurements carried out by cameras. After the use of such method, the systems obtained may present a high chance of satisfying a set of constraints, and meeting their possibility to be used for machine vision applied in agricultural decision-making processes related to plant architecture and in situ recognition.