Picasos

Picasos(Flower Shape Analysis System Version 1.5)

Developed by Takanari TANABATA, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan.
Collaborator: Tetsuya YAMADA and Yoshihito SHINOZAKI.
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan. Copyright (C) 2007-2010 Takanari TANABATA All rights reserved.

Flower Shape Analysis System is a computer program for the area measurement on digital images. This software enables to measure area size of plant organs from images with easy operation. This software is developed by Dr. Takanari Tanabata. This software is provided as freeware.

Reference

Takanari Tanabata, Tetsuya Yamada, Yusuke Shimizu, Yoshihito Shinozaki, Motoki Kanekatsu and Makoto Takano, "Development of Automatic Segmentation Software for Efficient Measurement of Area on the Digital Images of Plant Organs", Hort. Res. (Japan), 9(4):501-506 (2010) doi:10.2503/hrj.9.501

Release notes

2009/10/20 Flower Shape Analysis System Version 1.50 Release
2010/08/01 Flower Shape Analysis System Version 1.52 updated

Downloads

picasos.exe

Installation

Requirement

PC

CPU: Intel® Pentium 4 and above
Memory: 756MB (1024MB is recommended)

OS

Windows XP / Windows Vista / Windows 7

Install

For 32bit OS user

Download install program 'picasos.exe', and open this program.

For 64bit OS user

Sorry, this install program don't work well. Please install in the following steps.
(1) Open 'picasos.exe'.
(2) You will see 'INSTALL.EXE' at the folder that you ran in step (1).
(3) Open 'INSTALL.EXE'.
(4) Delete files - 'INSTALL.EXE' and 'polyans_full.ico'-.

Manual

Picasos manual is available with the link below as Adobe ®PDF document. You will need Adobe Reader® of later to open it.
Manual link (PDF)

Acknowledgements