Scene interpretation to guide a crop protection vehicle

We have presented a method to extract information to guide a crop protection vehicle. This method is based on image analysis techniques to interprete the geometrical structure of the crop from perspective information. First, a method is described to extract features from the image to build the scene model. The following section deals with the issue of working out the vanishing point in the image plane, resulting from the projected geometrical structure of the crop in the scene. Once the vanishing point is found, the model of the crop structure is built from this knowledge, and the way it is interpreted is described, leading to the information sought to guide the vehicle. Finally, after the presentation of some experimental results, conclusions and further work are described