Center Path Estimator for Agricultural Windrows

A windrow path detector for use by baling equipment. A camera system is mounted on the baling equipment and provides image data representing a stereo view of a windrow ahead of the baling equipment. A pre-processor to generates a depth image. A neural network receives the depth image and the image data from at least one camera, and is trained to use that input to generate a predicted center line over the windrow. A center path process uses the predicted center line to define a navigation path, which it delivers to a navigation system on-board the baling equipment.