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Therefore, a tree segmentation method based on monocular machine vision technology and a support vector machine (SVM) algorithm are proposed in this paper to segment citrus trees precisely under different brightness and weed coverage conditions. To reduce the sensitivity to environmental brightness, a selective illumination histogram equalization method was developed to compensate for the illumination, thereby improving the brightness contrast for the foreground without changing its hue and saturation. To accurately differentiate fruit trees from different weed coverage backgrounds, a chromatic aberration segmentation algorithm and the Otsu threshold method were combined to extract potential fruit tree regions. Then, 14 color features, five statistical texture features, and local binary pattern features of those regions were calculated to establish an SVM segmentation model. The proposed method was verified on a dataset with different brightness and weed coverage conditions, and the results show that the citrus tree segmentation accuracy reached 85.27% \u00b1 9.43%; thus, the proposed method achieved better performance than two similar methods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s19245558","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,12,17]],"date-time":"2019-12-17T02:59:01Z","timestamp":1576551541000},"page":"5558","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":41,"title":["Citrus Tree Segmentation from UAV Images Based on Monocular Machine Vision in a Natural Orchard Environment"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"given":"Yayong","family":"Chen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Academy of Contemporary Agriculture Engineering Innovations, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Guangzhou 510225, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Chaojun","family":"Hou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Academy of Contemporary Agriculture Engineering Innovations, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Guangzhou 510225, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9221-6591","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yu","family":"Tang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Academy of Contemporary Agriculture Engineering Innovations, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Guangzhou 510225, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jiajun","family":"Zhuang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Academy of Contemporary Agriculture Engineering Innovations, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Guangzhou 510225, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jintian","family":"Lin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Academy of Contemporary Agriculture Engineering Innovations, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Guangzhou 510225, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6752-1757","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yong","family":"He","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Qiwei","family":"Guo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Academy of Contemporary Agriculture Engineering Innovations, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Guangzhou 510225, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zhenyu","family":"Zhong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Guangdong Key Laboratory of Modern Control Technology, Guangdong Institute of Intelligent Manufacturing, Guangzhou 510070, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Huan","family":"Lei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Guangdong Key Laboratory of Modern Control Technology, Guangdong Institute of Intelligent Manufacturing, Guangzhou 510070, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Shaoming","family":"Luo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Academy of Contemporary Agriculture Engineering Innovations, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Guangzhou 510225, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,12,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"60","DOI":"10.1109\/MED.2016.7535938","article-title":"An autonomous multi-sensor UAV system for reduced-input precision agriculture applications","volume":"Volume 24","author":"Katsigiannis","year":"2016","journal-title":"Proceedings of the 2016 24th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED)"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Becerra, V.M. 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