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All stigmas of saffrons which are used as a spice or a dye are harvested by hand. However, it is heavy work to gather an enough amount. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether harvesting saffron's stigmas automatically is possible by using image processing. As a process of harvesting saffron stigmas automatically, we conceieved an idea of cutting the root of flower and harvesting stigma which is hanging by turning it down. Features to harvest stigmas are detected by using color information. The feasibility of this method was shown by the experiment.
