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@ARTICLE{Tsaftaris:820456,
author = {Tsaftaris, Sotirios A. and Minervini, Massimo and Scharr,
Hanno},
title = {{M}achine {L}earning for {P}lant {P}henotyping {N}eeds
{I}mage {P}rocessing},
journal = {Trends in plant science},
volume = {21},
number = {12},
issn = {1360-1385},
address = {Amsterdam [u.a.]},
publisher = {Elsevier Science},
reportid = {FZJ-2016-05766},
pages = {989–991},
year = {2016},
abstract = {We found the article by Singh et al. [1] extremely
interesting because it introduces and showcases the utility
of machine learning for high-throughput data-driven plant
phenotyping. With this letter we aim to emphasize the role
that image analysis and processing have in the phenotyping
pipeline beyond what is suggested in [1], both in analyzing
phenotyping data (e.g., to measure growth) and when
providing effective feature extraction to be used by machine
learning. Key recent reviews have shown that it is image
analysis itself (what the authors of [1] consider as part of
pre-processing) that has brought a renaissance in
phenotyping [2]. At the same time, the lack of robust
methods to analyze these images is now the new bottleneck 3,
4 and 5 – and this bottleneck is not easy to overcome. As
the following aims to illustrate, it is coupled not only to
the imaging system and the environment but also to the
analytical task at hand, and requires new skills to help
deal with the challenges introduced.A successful
high-throughput image-based phenotyping system starts with
the imaging approach itself. The choices are to image many
plants simultaneously or one plant at a time, requiring
movable systems to bring the plant to the camera or vice
versa. These systems add cost but have the benefit of
isolating the object of interest. In turn, this simplifies
its processing, for example facilitating object
segmentation, in other words the image analysis process
isolating the plant from background (e.g., soil), as Figure
1A shows (many image-processing tasks are related to how we
perceive and analyze an object of interest, such as
segmentation, detection, tracking, and many others).},
cin = {IBG-2},
ddc = {570},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-2-20101118},
pnm = {582 - Plant Science (POF3-582)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-582},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000389098000001},
pubmed = {pmid:27810146},
doi = {10.1016/j.tplants.2016.10.002},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/820456},
}