Citrus recognition in orchard scene based on modified HSV-morphology method

The orchard has always been an important scene for citrus pickers, and the existence of factors such as leaf occlusion and color similarity always lead to the difficulty of robot recognition. Based on a citrus image dataset collected from actual orchard scenes, we extract image features and build a mathematical model to identify and count the number of oranges in each image, and show the distribution of apples in the entire dataset. Firstly, this paper establishes a model based on HSV method, focusing on recognizing yellow citrus. Secondly, with the further analysis of the data set, it is found that the cyan citrus exists. Therefore, this paper defines the empirical HSV range of two kinds of citrus at the same time and introduces contour processing to optimize the model. In order to accurately distinguish the immature citrus from the leaves with similar colors and the citrus occluded by leaves, this paper uses more detailed color threshold setting and morphological operation, and makes the eccentricity of the contour less than 0.85. At the same time, considering the size and overlap of citrus, morphological operations such as dilation and erosion and contour detection techniques are applied to further improve the recognition ability of the model. Finally, the experimental results show that the average accuracy of the established model reaches 92.1%, which has a good recognition effect on citrus.