SELEÇÃO DE ATRIBUTOS EM IMAGENS COLETADAS SOB CONDIÇÕES DE ILUMINAÇÃO NÃO CONTROLADA E SUA INFLUÊNCIA NO DESEMPENHO DE CLASSIFICADORES NAIVE BAYES PARA IDENTIFICAÇÃO DE OBJETOS EM ESTUFAS AGRÍCOLAS

Abstract

A problem regarding the implementation of navigation systems for autonomous moving robots is to detect the objects of interest and obstacles which are in the environment. This study considers the detection of walls / low walls of agricultural greenhouses in digital images obtained without illumination control. The proposed approach employs techniques of digital image processing and digital classification to detect the object of interest. The classifier has been developed digital type Naive Bayes. Two important issues when employing classification methods in computer vision is the accuracy of the classifier and the complexity of computing time. The selection of attributes descriptors that comprise a classifier has great impact on these two factors, generally the fewer attributes are required, the lower the computational cost. Regarding it, this study compared the performance of two methods of feature selection based on principal component analysis, named B2 and B4 in two cases. In the first scenario the feature selection was conducted on all the data extracted from all images. The second selection was performed for images grouped by similarity. After selection, the selected attributes for each approach was used to construct the type Naive Bayes classifier with 12, 17, 22 and 27 input variables. The results indicate that the grouping of images is useful when: (a) the distance from the center of the group to the center of the original database exceeds a threshold and (b) a correlation among the descriptors variables and the target variable is greater than in the group as a whole complete data. Keywords: Greenhouses, Autonomous navigation, Selection attributes, Naive Bayes classifiers.