Ramesh K N

Work place: Department of Electronics and Instrumentation, Bangalore Institute of Technology, Bangalore -560004, India

E-mail: rkestur@gmail.com

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Research Interests: Image Processing, Image Manipulation, Computational Learning Theory, Computer systems and computational processes

Biography

Ramesh K.N received B.E .degree in Electronics engineering from BMSE college of Engineering in 1995, the ME degree in Electronics and Communication in 2015 from University Visvesvaraya college of Engineering. Ramesh K.N has 17 years of work experience at Infosys Technologies Ltd, Bangalore. He was a Group Project Manager at Infosys. He has worked in development of features for Core switching and Digital Centrex products in the area of communication protocol development, call processing, translations and routing software. He is currently a PhD student in the department of Electronics and Instrumentation at Bangalore Institute of Technology, Bangalore. His research interests include Image processing; machine learning and remote sensing from UAVs.

Author Articles
Detection of Rows in Agricultural Crop Images Acquired by Remote Sensing from a UAV

By Ramesh K N Chandrika N S.N. Omkar M B Meenavathi Rekha V

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2016.11.04, Pub. Date: 8 Nov. 2016

Detection of rows in crops planted as rows is fundamental to site specific management of agricultural farms. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are increasingly being used for agriculture applications. Images acquired using Low altitude remote sensing is analysed. In this paper we propose the detection of rows in an open field tomato crop by analyzing images acquired using remote sensing from an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle used is a quadcopter fitted with an optical sensor. The optical sensor used is a vision spectrum camera. Spectral-spatial methods are applied in processing the images. K-Means clustering is used for spectral clustering. Clustering result is further improved by using spatial methods. Mathematical morphology and geometric shape operations of Shape Index and Density Index are used for spatial segmentation. Six images acquired at different altitudes are analysed to validate the robustness of the proposed method. Performance of row detection is analysed using confusion matrix. The results are comparable for the diverse image sets analyzed. 

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