Plant Screen Mobile
Mark Mueller-Linow & Jens Wilhelm
Overview
Measured variables | projected leaf area, segment perimeter, segment width/height, average segment RGB and HSV values |
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Operating system | Android |
Licence | Freeware |
Automation level | Manual |
Plant requirements | Any |
Export formats | png, jpg, csv |
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Scientific article(s)
Plant Screen Mobile: an open-source mobile device app for plant trait analysisMark Müller-Linow, Jens Wilhelm, Christoph Briese, Tobias Wojciechowski, Ulrich Schurr, Fabio FioraniPlant Methods, 2019 View paper
Description
Leaf area is one of the fundamental variables to quantify plant growth and physiological function and is therefore widely used to characterize genotypes and their interaction with the environment. With the development of Plant Screen Mobile we provide a suitable smartphone solution for estimating proxies of leaf area and biomass in various imaging scenarios in the lab, greenhouse and in the field. This requires image segmentation of plant parts and background. Therefore the core of the application comprises different classification approaches. Beyond the estimation of projected leaf area the app can also be used to quantify color and shape parameters as well as to estimate the number of objects in an image (e.g. suitable for seed counting). A training procedure can be used to optimize the segmentation parametrization. The app is also available on Google Play Store.