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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2021
Filed:
May. 05, 2017
Bayer Cropscience Aktiengesellschaft, Monheim am Rhein, DE;
Bjoern Kiepe, Mühlhausen, DE;
Thomas Schilling, Bornheim, DE;
Franco Fois, Monheim, DE;
Daniel Rechsteiner, Cologne, DE;
Sebastian Hellweg, Leverkusen, DE;
Alexandra Gladbach, Leverkusen, DE;
Birgit Stepponat, Langenfeld, DE;
BASF AGRO TRADEMARKS GMBH, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, DE;
Abstract
A method for identifying of a type of weed in a natural environment may be provided. The method comprises receiving a digital image of the weed in an early growth stage together with related metadata, contouring areas of leaves and determining whether the weed is a monocotyledon or a dicotyledon. Furthermore, the method comprises determining a growth stage and determining the type of weed identified by a weed name and a probability of the correctness of the determination using at least one out of a plurality of the received metadata and a plurality of metadata determined during the contouring, during the determining whether the weed is a monocotyledon or a dicotyledon, and during the determination of the growth stage of the weeds as input parameters to a set of classifiers using a storage comprising names of types of weeds together with a plurality of sets of metadata per weed type.