Free and open-source software for object detection, size, and colour determination for use in plant phenotyping.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Object detection, size determination, and colour detection of images are tools commonly used in plant science. Key examples of this include identification of ripening stages of fruit such as tomatoes and the determination of chlorophyll content as an indicator of plant health. While methods exist for determining these important phenotypes, they often require proprietary software or require coding knowledge to adapt existing code.

Results

We provide a set of free and open-source Python scripts that, without any adaptation, are able to perform background correction and colour correction on images using a ColourChecker chart. Further scripts identify objects, use an object of known size to calibrate for size, and extract the average colour of objects in RGB, Lab, and

SUBMITTER: Wright HC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10647133 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature