Patent ID: 11937524
Assignee: VERDANT ROBOTICS, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 0:
1. A method implemented by a treatment system on a moving platform having one or more processors, a storage, and a treatment mechanism, comprising:
obtaining, by the treatment system disposed on a vehicle and configured to implement a machine learning (ML) algorithm, images of a region of an agricultural environment;
applying a sequence of image processing algorithms to portions of images of the agricultural environment ingested from sensors on the moving platform, wherein the sequence of image processing algorithms includes a first image processing algorithm that performs object detection and a second image processing algorithm that performs object tracking of detected objects from the object detection;
making a decision about whether and which of the detected and tracked objects are candidates for a treatment by the treatment system; and
applying the treatment to the objects according to the decisions wherein, the sequence of image processing algorithms is applied such that upon detecting an object in a first image by the first image processing algorithm, processing of the object by the first image processing algorithm is turned off for next N frames and the object is tracked by the second image processing algorithm for the next N frames, where N is a positive integer.