Research Output
Detecting plants on railway embankment.
  This paper investigates problems concerning vegetation along railways and proposes automatic means of detecting
ground vegetation. Digital images of railway embankments have been acquired and used for the purpose. The current
work mainly proposes two algorithms to be able to achieve automation. Initially a vegetation detection algorithm has
been investigated for the purpose of detecting vegetation. Further a rail detection algorithm that is capable of identifying
the rails and eventually the valid sampling area has been investigated. Results achieved in the current work report satisfactory
(qualitative) detection rates

  • Type:

    Article

  • Date:

    31 December 2013

  • Publication Status:

    Published

  • Publisher

    Scientific Research Publishing

  • DOI:

    10.4236/jsea.2013.63b003

  • ISSN:

    1945-3116

  • Library of Congress:

    QA76 Computer software

  • Dewey Decimal Classification:

    005 Computer programming, programs & data

Citation

Nyberg, R., Gupta, N. K., Yella, S., & Dougherty, M. (2013). Detecting plants on railway embankment. Journal of Software Engineering and Applications, 6, 8-12. https://doi.org/10.4236/jsea.2013.63b003

Authors

Keywords

Railway Engineering; Railway Embankments; Condition Monitoring; Image Processing; Color Segmentation; Railway Maintenance; Vegetation Detection

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