Milkweed ( Asclepias syriaca ) plant detection using mobile cameras

Milkweed ( Asclepias spp.) are host plants of monarch butterflies ( Danaus plexippus ). It is important to detect milkweed plant locations to assess the status and trends of monarch habitat in support of monarch conservation programs. In this paper, we describe autonomous detection of milkweed plants using cameras mounted to vehicles. For detection, we used both aggregated channel features ( ACF ) for running the detectors on embedded computing...