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Table 2 Comparison of time consumption between manual counting, DBSC, and VBRG

From: Comparison of two novel methods for counting wheat ears in the field with terrestrial LiDAR

Methods

Time (36 plots)

Total time (36 plots)

Manual

6 h/person

6 h/person

DBSC

 TLS scanning

1.6 h

2.5 h

 Data pre-processing

0.7 h

 Calculation

0.2 h

VBRG

 TLS scanning

1.6 h

2.7 h

 Data pre-processing

0.7 h

 Calculation

0.4 h

  1. A total of 4 persons were involved in the manual counting