How to count images

How can I count the agave plants in this field? what technique do you recommend??
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UWf1p2juWVudpG7-I2oVI2B-M4xO3Izz/view?usp=sharing

thanks

You could start with a naive approach of trying to predict the target value directly or alternatively use an object detection task, where you could count the predicted bounding boxes for each plant.

Captura de pantalla 2020-06-30 a la(s) 9.32.30

as you see not being able to identify only the plants:
my code is


#conversion a escala de grises
gray=cv2.cvtColor(img,cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
gray = cv2.GaussianBlur(gray,(25,25),0)


ret, threshed_img = cv2.threshold(cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY),
                127, 255, cv2.THRESH_BINARY)
# find contours and get the external one

dilated = cv2.dilate(thresh,kernel,iterations = 13) # dilate
contours, hierarchy = cv2.findContours(dilated,cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_NONE)

for cnt in contours:
    x,y,w,h = cv2.boundingRect(cnt)
    if h<30 or w<30:
        continue
    else:
        
        cv2.rectangle(img, (x, y), (x+w, y+h), (0, 255, 0), 2)
            # get the min area rect
        rect = cv2.minAreaRect(cnt)
        box = cv2.boxPoints(rect)
        # convert all coordinates floating point values to int
        box = np.int0(box)
        # draw a red 'nghien' rectangle
        #cv2.drawContours(img, [box], 0, (0, 0, 255))
    
        # finally, get the min enclosing circle
        (x, y), radius = cv2.minEnclosingCircle(cnt)
        # convert all values to int
        center = (int(x), int(y))
        radius = int(radius)
        # and draw the circle in blue
        img = cv2.circle(img, center, radius, (255, 0, 0), 2)
    
    

print(len(contours))

If you don’t have the labels and would like to use a classical computer vision approach, I would recommend to post the question in an OpenCV-specific discussion board or on StackOverflow, as your use case doesn’t seem to be PyTorch-specific. :wink: