Plant Senescence Analysis

The analysis of leaf senescence is an important part for plant phenotyping, particularly under stresses. However, manual inspection is time consuming and its evaluation is subjective. Therefore objective valuation of plant senescence by color image analysis is desirable for high throughput plant phenotyping. The plant colors in images may not represent the original colors of plants due to imperfect camera lenses and camera settings. In this case, color analysis for the senescence estimation may result in significant error. In this method, we propose a novel algorithm to have the effects of both the color distortion correction and the deblurring for senescence analysis.