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Contour analysis for interpretable leaf shape category discovery

Jorge Victorino1,2, Francisco Gómez3

  • 11Departament of System Engineering, Universidad Central, Bogotá, 110311 Colombia.

Plant Methods
|October 19, 2019
PubMed
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Keywords:
Category discoveryContour analysisInterpretabilityLeaf shapeMorphological description

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