an analysis of the stages of crop growth presents an important step in the improvement of production management. through growth analysis, planning for planting systems, fertilization, pruning operations, harvest time as well as obtaining economical yield can be more accessible. therefore, a development of mathematical models simulating plant growth would be helpful in improving crop management,...

Decision tree based context clustering [Young; '94] ・ Construct a parameter tying structure ・ Can estimate robust parameter ・ Can generate unseen context dependent models ・ Minimum description length (MDL) criterion [Shinoda; '97] Bayesian approach ・ Variational Bayesian (VB) method [Attias; '99] ⇒ Applied to speech recognition [Watanabe; '04] ・ Can use prior information ⇒ Affect context cluste...