Patent ID: 11880981
Assignee: TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 11:
12. The system of claim 9, wherein the one or more processors are configured to perform selecting a seed point for each of the one or more leaves by:
converting the deveined image to the binary image such that a white region therein forms a foreground which is representative of the one or more leaves while the other areas in the image being black form a background of the image;
applying a distance transform on the binary image to replace value of each pixel in the binary image by an associated distance to a nearest background pixel;
identifying one or more regions within the distance transformed image as one or more skeletons, using thinning, wherein the one or more skeletons are characterized by pixels having a maximum value corresponding to a farthest region from a boundary of the white region;
separating the one or more skeletons of overlapping leaves from the one or more leaves into sub-skeletons by eliminating pixels having values lower than an empirically determined second threshold, wherein each of the sub-skeletons is representative of one of the one or more leaves; and
selecting a pixel having a maximum value in each of the sub-skeletons as the seed point for an associated sub-skeleton corresponding to one of the one or more leaves.