Agricultural assistance system and method for detecting crop rows

Abstract

An agricultural assistance system includes a processor configured or programmed to process an image of a field including a plurality of crop rows as viewed from above to detect the plurality of crop rows. The processor is configured or programmed to, from the image, generate a vegetated area image into which a vegetated area including the plurality of crop rows is extracted, along N summation lines (where N is an integer of 2 or greater) in the vegetated area image, take a sum of pixel values of pixels of the vegetated area image to derive N summation values associated with the N summation lines, apply a filter to a linear array storing the N summation values and perform a convolution operation to derive N weighted summation values, and detect the plurality of crop rows based on the N weighted summation values.

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