Plant Leaf Recognition Using Zernike Moments and Histogram of Oriented Gradients

A method using Zernike Moments and Histogram of Oriented Gradients for classification of plant leaf images is proposed in this paper. After preprocessing, we compute the shape features of a leaf using Zernike Moments and texture features using Histogram of Oriented Gradients and then the Support Vector Machine classifier is used for plant leaf image classification and recognition. Experimental results show that using both Zernike Moments and Histogram of Oriented Gradients to classify and recognize plant leaf image yields accuracy that is comparable or better than the state of the art. The method has been validated on the Flavia and the Swedish Leaves datasets as well as on a combined dataset.

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