The Monitoring of Corn Sprouts Growth Using the Region Growing Methods

Abstract

The aim of this research is to apply plant growth monitoring function using region growing method and Matlab application with an object of corn sprouts and parameters of length and time. The research process is done by taking pictures digitally change the color level (Red Green Blue) to grayscale, cropping the image and then calculate the growth of the plant using region growing. From the results of the study, region growing can be used to calculate the growth of plant length with parameters of length and time. The results of manual measurements show the growth of plant length by an average of 2.1 cm/day then the results of measurements with region growing show an average plant length of 2.3 cm/day, this result shows the comparison between manual and region growing measurements is 0.2 cm. The difference between manual calculation and region growing is caused by the accuracy of shooting and image cropping process.