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Stefański P, Ullah S, Matysik P, Rybka K. Triticale field phenotyping using RGB camera for ear counting and yield estimation. J Appl Genet 2024; 65:271-281. [PMID: 38353850 DOI: 10.1007/s13353-024-00835-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2023] [Revised: 01/10/2024] [Accepted: 01/18/2024] [Indexed: 04/11/2024]
Abstract
Triticale (X Triticosecale Wittmack), a wheat-rye small grain crop hybrid, combines wheat and rye attributes in one hexaploid genome. It is characterized by high adaptability to adverse environmental conditions: drought, soil acidity, salinity and heavy metal ions, poorer soil quality, and waterlogging. So that its cultivation is prospective in a changing climate. Here, we describe RGB on-ground phenotyping of field-grown eighteen triticale market-available cultivars, made in naturally changing light conditions, in two consecutive winter cereals growing seasons: 2018-2019 and 2019-2020. The number of ears was counted on top-down images with an accuracy of 95% and mean average precision (mAP) of 0.71 using advanced object detection algorithm YOLOv4, with ensemble modeling of field imaging captured in two different illumination conditions. A correlation between the number of ears and yield was achieved at the statistical importance of 0.16 for data from 2019. Results are discussed from the perspective of modern breeding and phenotyping bottleneck.
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- Piotr Stefański
- Plant Breeding Strzelce Ltd. Co. IHAR Group, 99-307, Strzelce, Poland
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- Faculty of Science, National Centre for Biomolecular Research, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
- PSI (Photon Systems Instruments), Spol. S R.O, 66424, Drasov, Czech Republic
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- Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute-National Research Institute, IHAR-PIB, Biochemistry and Biotechnology Department, 05-870, Radzików, Poland.
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Zang H, Su X, Wang Y, Li G, Zhang J, Zheng G, Hu W, Shen H. Automatic grading evaluation of winter wheat lodging based on deep learning. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2024; 15:1284861. [PMID: 38726297 PMCID: PMC11079220 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1284861] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2023] [Accepted: 03/26/2024] [Indexed: 05/12/2024]
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Lodging is a crucial factor that limits wheat yield and quality in wheat breeding. Therefore, accurate and timely determination of winter wheat lodging grading is of great practical importance for agricultural insurance companies to assess agricultural losses and good seed selection. However, using artificial fields to investigate the inclination angle and lodging area of winter wheat lodging in actual production is time-consuming, laborious, subjective, and unreliable in measuring results. This study addresses these issues by designing a classification-semantic segmentation multitasking neural network model MLP_U-Net, which can accurately estimate the inclination angle and lodging area of winter wheat lodging. This model can also comprehensively, qualitatively, and quantitatively evaluate the grading of winter wheat lodging. The model is based on U-Net architecture and improves the shift MLP module structure to achieve network refinement and segmentation for complex tasks. The model utilizes a common encoder to enhance its robustness, improve classification accuracy, and strengthen the segmentation network, considering the correlation between lodging degree and lodging area parameters. This study used 82 winter wheat varieties sourced from the regional experiment of national winter wheat in the Huang-Huai-Hai southern area of the water land group at the Henan Modern Agriculture Research and Development Base. The base is located in Xinxiang City, Henan Province. Winter wheat lodging images were collected using the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) remote sensing platform. Based on these images, winter wheat lodging datasets were created using different time sequences and different UAV flight heights. These datasets aid in segmenting and classifying winter wheat lodging degrees and areas. The results show that MLP_U-Net has demonstrated superior detection performance in a small sample dataset. The accuracies of winter wheat lodging degree and lodging area grading were 96.1% and 92.2%, respectively, when the UAV flight height was 30 m. For a UAV flight height of 50 m, the accuracies of winter wheat lodging degree and lodging area grading were 84.1% and 84.7%, respectively. These findings indicate that MLP_U-Net is highly robust and efficient in accurately completing the winter wheat lodging-grading task. This valuable insight provides technical references for UAV remote sensing of winter wheat disaster severity and the assessment of losses.
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- Hecang Zang
- Institute of Agricultural Information Technology, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, China
- Huanghuaihai Key Laboratory of Intelligent Agricultural Technology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Areas, Zhengzhou, China
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- Institute of Agricultural Information Technology, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, China
- College of Computer and Information Engineering, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, China
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- School of Life Science, Zhengzhou Normal University, Zhengzhou, China
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- Institute of Agricultural Information Technology, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, China
- Huanghuaihai Key Laboratory of Intelligent Agricultural Technology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Areas, Zhengzhou, China
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- Institute of Agricultural Information Technology, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, China
- Huanghuaihai Key Laboratory of Intelligent Agricultural Technology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Areas, Zhengzhou, China
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- Institute of Agricultural Information Technology, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, China
- Huanghuaihai Key Laboratory of Intelligent Agricultural Technology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Areas, Zhengzhou, China
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- Wheat Research Institution, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, China
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- College of Computer and Information Engineering, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, China
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Yu J, Chen W, Liu N, Fan C. Oriented feature pyramid network for small and dense wheat heads detection and counting. Sci Rep 2024; 14:8106. [PMID: 38582913 PMCID: PMC10998838 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-58638-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2023] [Accepted: 04/01/2024] [Indexed: 04/08/2024] Open
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Wheat head detection and counting using deep learning techniques has gained considerable attention in precision agriculture applications such as wheat growth monitoring, yield estimation, and resource allocation. However, the accurate detection of small and dense wheat heads remains challenging due to the inherent variations in their size, orientation, appearance, aspect ratios, density, and the complexity of imaging conditions. To address these challenges, we propose a novel approach called the Oriented Feature Pyramid Network (OFPN) that focuses on detecting rotated wheat heads by utilizing oriented bounding boxes. In order to facilitate the development and evaluation of our proposed method, we introduce a novel dataset named the Rotated Global Wheat Head Dataset (RGWHD). This dataset is constructed by manually annotating images from the Global Wheat Head Detection (GWHD) dataset with oriented bounding boxes. Furthermore, we incorporate a Path-aggregation and Balanced Feature Pyramid Network into our architecture to effectively extract both semantic and positional information from the input images. This is achieved by leveraging feature fusion techniques at multiple scales, enhancing the detection capabilities for small wheat heads. To improve the localization and detection accuracy of dense and overlapping wheat heads, we employ the Soft-NMS algorithm to filter the proposed bounding boxes. Experimental results indicate the superior performance of the OFPN model, achieving a remarkable mean average precision of 85.77% in oriented wheat head detection, surpassing six other state-of-the-art models. Moreover, we observe a substantial improvement in the accuracy of wheat head counting, with an accuracy of 93.97%. This represents an increase of 3.12% compared to the Faster R-CNN method. Both qualitative and quantitative results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed OFPN model in accurately localizing and counting wheat heads within various challenging scenarios.
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- Junwei Yu
- Key Laboratory of Grain Information Processing and Control (Henan University of Technology), Ministry of Education, Zhengzhou, 450001, China.
- School of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou, 450001, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Grain Information Processing and Control (Henan University of Technology), Ministry of Education, Zhengzhou, 450001, China
- College of Information Science and Engineering, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou, 450001, China
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- Basis Department, PLA Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China
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- Key Laboratory of Grain Information Processing and Control (Henan University of Technology), Ministry of Education, Zhengzhou, 450001, China
- School of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou, 450001, China
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Ullah S, Panzarová K, Trtílek M, Lexa M, Máčala V, Neumann K, Altmann T, Hejátko J, Pernisová M, Gladilin E. High-Throughput Spike Detection in Greenhouse Cultivated Grain Crops with Attention Mechanisms-Based Deep Learning Models. PLANT PHENOMICS (WASHINGTON, D.C.) 2024; 6:0155. [PMID: 38476818 PMCID: PMC10927539 DOI: 10.34133/plantphenomics.0155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2023] [Accepted: 02/03/2024] [Indexed: 03/14/2024]
Abstract
Detection of spikes is the first important step toward image-based quantitative assessment of crop yield. However, spikes of grain plants occupy only a tiny fraction of the image area and often emerge in the middle of the mass of plant leaves that exhibit similar colors to spike regions. Consequently, accurate detection of grain spikes renders, in general, a non-trivial task even for advanced, state-of-the-art deep neural networks (DNNs). To improve pattern detection in spikes, we propose architectural changes to Faster-RCNN (FRCNN) by reducing feature extraction layers and introducing a global attention module. The performance of our extended FRCNN-A vs. conventional FRCNN was compared on images of different European wheat cultivars, including "difficult" bushy phenotypes from 2 different phenotyping facilities and optical setups. Our experimental results show that introduced architectural adaptations in FRCNN-A helped to improve spike detection accuracy in inner regions. The mean average precision (mAP) of FRCNN and FRCNN-A on inner spikes is 76.0% and 81.0%, respectively, while on the state-of-the-art detection DNNs, Swin Transformer mAP is 83.0%. As a lightweight network, FRCNN-A is faster than FRCNN and Swin Transformer on both baseline and augmented training datasets. On the FastGAN augmented dataset, FRCNN achieved a mAP of 84.24%, FRCNN-A attained a mAP of 85.0%, and the Swin Transformer achieved a mAP of 89.45%. The increase in mAP of DNNs on the augmented datasets is proportional to the amount of the IPK original and augmented images. Overall, this study indicates a superior performance of attention mechanisms-based deep learning models in detecting small and subtle features of grain spikes.
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- Sajid Ullah
- Mendel Centre for Plant Genomics and Proteomics, Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC),
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
- National Centre for Biomolecular Research, Faculty of Science,
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
- Photon Systems Instruments, spol. s r.o., Drasov, Czech Republic
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- Photon Systems Instruments, spol. s r.o., Drasov, Czech Republic
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- Photon Systems Instruments, spol. s r.o., Drasov, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Informatics,
Masaryk University, Botanicka 68a, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Informatics,
Masaryk University, Botanicka 68a, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Seeland OT Gatersleben, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Seeland OT Gatersleben, Germany
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- Mendel Centre for Plant Genomics and Proteomics, Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC),
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
- National Centre for Biomolecular Research, Faculty of Science,
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Mendel Centre for Plant Genomics and Proteomics, Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC),
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
- National Centre for Biomolecular Research, Faculty of Science,
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Seeland OT Gatersleben, Germany
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Shen X, Zhang C, Liu K, Mao W, Zhou C, Yao L. A lightweight network for improving wheat ears detection and counting based on YOLOv5s. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 14:1289726. [PMID: 38164250 PMCID: PMC10757923 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1289726] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2023] [Accepted: 12/04/2023] [Indexed: 01/03/2024]
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Introduction Recognizing wheat ears plays a crucial role in predicting wheat yield. Employing deep learning methods for wheat ears identification is the mainstream method in current research and applications. However, such methods still face challenges, such as high computational parameter volume, large model weights, and slow processing speeds, making it difficult to apply them for real-time identification tasks on limited hardware resources in the wheat field. Therefore, exploring lightweight wheat ears detection methods for real-time recognition holds significant importance. Methods This study proposes a lightweight method for detecting and counting wheat ears based on YOLOv5s. It utilizes the ShuffleNetV2 lightweight convolutional neural network to optimize the YOLOv5s model by reducing the number of parameters and simplifying the complexity of the calculation processes. In addition, a lightweight upsampling operator content-aware reassembly of features is introduced in the feature pyramid structure to eliminate the impact of the lightweight process on the model detection performance. This approach aims to improve the spatial resolution of the feature images, enhance the effectiveness of the perceptual field, and reduce information loss. Finally, by introducing the dynamic target detection head, the shape of the detection head and the feature extraction strategy can be dynamically adjusted, and the detection accuracy can be improved when encountering wheat ears with large-scale changes, diverse shapes, or significant orientation variations. Results and discussion This study uses the global wheat head detection dataset and incorporates the local experimental dataset to improve the robustness and generalization of the proposed model. The weight, FLOPs and mAP of this model are 2.9 MB, 2.5 * 109 and 94.8%, respectively. The linear fitting determination coefficients R2 for the model test result and actual value of global wheat head detection dataset and local experimental Site are 0.94 and 0.97, respectively. The improved lightweight model can better meet the requirements of precision wheat ears counting and play an important role in embedded systems, mobile devices, or other hardware systems with limited computing resources.
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- School of Information Engineering, Huzhou University, Huzhou, China
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Manickam S, Rajagopalan VR, Kambale R, Rajasekaran R, Kanagarajan S, Muthurajan R. Plant Metabolomics: Current Initiatives and Future Prospects. Curr Issues Mol Biol 2023; 45:8894-8906. [PMID: 37998735 PMCID: PMC10670879 DOI: 10.3390/cimb45110558] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2023] [Revised: 10/30/2023] [Accepted: 11/06/2023] [Indexed: 11/25/2023] Open
Abstract
Plant metabolomics is a rapidly advancing field of plant sciences and systems biology. It involves comprehensive analyses of small molecules (metabolites) in plant tissues and cells. These metabolites include a wide range of compounds, such as sugars, amino acids, organic acids, secondary metabolites (e.g., alkaloids and flavonoids), lipids, and more. Metabolomics allows an understanding of the functional roles of specific metabolites in plants' physiology, development, and responses to biotic and abiotic stresses. It can lead to the identification of metabolites linked with specific traits or functions. Plant metabolic networks and pathways can be better understood with the help of metabolomics. Researchers can determine how plants react to environmental cues or genetic modifications by examining how metabolite profiles change under various crop stages. Metabolomics plays a major role in crop improvement and biotechnology. Integrating metabolomics data with other omics data (genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics) provides a more comprehensive perspective of plant biology. This systems biology approach enables researchers to understand the complex interactions within organisms.
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- Sudha Manickam
- Department of Plant Biotechnology, Centre for Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore 641003, India; (S.M.); (V.R.R.); (R.K.); (R.R.)
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology, Centre for Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore 641003, India; (S.M.); (V.R.R.); (R.K.); (R.R.)
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology, Centre for Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore 641003, India; (S.M.); (V.R.R.); (R.K.); (R.R.)
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology, Centre for Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore 641003, India; (S.M.); (V.R.R.); (R.K.); (R.R.)
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- Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, P.O. Box 190, 234 22 Lomma, Sweden
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology, Centre for Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore 641003, India; (S.M.); (V.R.R.); (R.K.); (R.R.)
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Zhao J, Cai Y, Wang S, Yan J, Qiu X, Yao X, Tian Y, Zhu Y, Cao W, Zhang X. Small and Oriented Wheat Spike Detection at the Filling and Maturity Stages Based on WheatNet. PLANT PHENOMICS (WASHINGTON, D.C.) 2023; 5:0109. [PMID: 37915995 PMCID: PMC10618025 DOI: 10.34133/plantphenomics.0109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2023] [Accepted: 09/27/2023] [Indexed: 11/03/2023]
Abstract
Accurate wheat spike detection is crucial in wheat field phenotyping for precision farming. Advances in artificial intelligence have enabled deep learning models to improve the accuracy of detecting wheat spikes. However, wheat growth is a dynamic process characterized by important changes in the color feature of wheat spikes and the background. Existing models for wheat spike detection are typically designed for a specific growth stage. Their adaptability to other growth stages or field scenes is limited. Such models cannot detect wheat spikes accurately caused by the difference in color, size, and morphological features between growth stages. This paper proposes WheatNet to detect small and oriented wheat spikes from the filling to the maturity stage. WheatNet constructs a Transform Network to reduce the effect of differences in the color features of spikes at the filling and maturity stages on detection accuracy. Moreover, a Detection Network is designed to improve wheat spike detection capability. A Circle Smooth Label is proposed to classify wheat spike angles in drone imagery. A new micro-scale detection layer is added to the network to extract the features of small spikes. Localization loss is improved by Complete Intersection over Union to reduce the impact of the background. The results show that WheatNet can achieve greater accuracy than classical detection methods. The detection accuracy with average precision of spike detection at the filling stage is 90.1%, while it is 88.6% at the maturity stage. It suggests that WheatNet is a promising tool for detection of wheat spikes.
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- Jianqing Zhao
- National Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture,
Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
- Key Laboratory for Crop System Analysis and Decision Making, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing 210095, China
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- National Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture,
Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
- Key Laboratory for Crop System Analysis and Decision Making, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing 210095, China
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- National Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture,
Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
- Key Laboratory for Crop System Analysis and Decision Making, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing 210095, China
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- National Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture,
Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
- Key Laboratory for Crop System Analysis and Decision Making, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing 210095, China
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- National Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture,
Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
- Key Laboratory for Crop System Analysis and Decision Making, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing 210095, China
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- National Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture,
Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
- Key Laboratory for Crop System Analysis and Decision Making, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing 210095, China
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Information Agriculture, Nanjing 210095, China
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- National Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture,
Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
- Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Modern Crop Production, Nanjing 210095, China
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- National Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture,
Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
- Key Laboratory for Crop System Analysis and Decision Making, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing 210095, China
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- National Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture,
Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
- Key Laboratory for Crop System Analysis and Decision Making, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing 210095, China
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- National Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture,
Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
- Key Laboratory for Crop System Analysis and Decision Making, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing 210095, China
- Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Modern Crop Production, Nanjing 210095, China
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Batin MA, Islam M, Hasan MM, Azad AKM, Alyami SA, Hossain MA, Miklavcic SJ. WheatSpikeNet: an improved wheat spike segmentation model for accurate estimation from field imaging. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 14:1226190. [PMID: 37692423 PMCID: PMC10485698 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1226190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2023] [Accepted: 07/19/2023] [Indexed: 09/12/2023]
Abstract
Phenotyping is used in plant breeding to identify genotypes with desirable characteristics, such as drought tolerance, disease resistance, and high-yield potentials. It may also be used to evaluate the effect of environmental circumstances, such as drought, heat, and salt, on plant growth and development. Wheat spike density measure is one of the most important agronomic factors relating to wheat phenotyping. Nonetheless, due to the diversity of wheat field environments, fast and accurate identification for counting wheat spikes remains one of the challenges. This study proposes a meticulously curated and annotated dataset, named as SPIKE-segm, taken from the publicly accessible SPIKE dataset, and an optimal instance segmentation approach named as WheatSpikeNet for segmenting and counting wheat spikes from field imagery. The proposed method is based on the well-known Cascade Mask RCNN architecture with model enhancements and hyperparameter tuning to provide state-of-the-art detection and segmentation performance. A comprehensive ablation analysis incorporating many architectural components of the model was performed to determine the most efficient version. In addition, the model's hyperparameters were fine-tuned by conducting several empirical tests. ResNet50 with Deformable Convolution Network (DCN) as the backbone architecture for feature extraction, Generic RoI Extractor (GRoIE) for RoI pooling, and Side Aware Boundary Localization (SABL) for wheat spike localization comprises the final instance segmentation model. With bbox and mask mean average precision (mAP) scores of 0.9303 and 0.9416, respectively, on the test set, the proposed model achieved superior performance on the challenging SPIKE datasets. Furthermore, in comparison with other existing state-of-the-art methods, the proposed model achieved up to a 0.41% improvement of mAP in spike detection and a significant improvement of 3.46% of mAP in the segmentation tasks that will lead us to an appropriate yield estimation from wheat plants.
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- M. A. Batin
- Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, College of Science, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, College of Science, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Islamic University of Technology, Gazipur, Bangladesh
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- Phenomics and Bioinformatics Research Centre, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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Cheng F, Wei J, Jiang S, Chen Q, Ru Y, Zhou H. Feature enhancement guided network for yield estimation of high-density jujube. PLANT METHODS 2023; 19:85. [PMID: 37587465 PMCID: PMC10429078 DOI: 10.1186/s13007-023-01066-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2022] [Accepted: 07/31/2023] [Indexed: 08/18/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Automatic and precise jujube yield prediction is important for the management of orchards and the allocation of resources. Traditional yield prediction techniques are based on object detection, which predicts a box to achieve target statistics, but are often used in sparse target settings. Those techniques, however, are challenging to use in real-world situations with particularly dense jujubes. The box labeling is labor- and time-intensive, and the robustness of the system is adversely impacted by severe occlusions. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop a robust method for predicting jujube yield based on images. But in addition to the extreme occlusions, it is also challenging due to varying scales, complex backgrounds, and illumination variations. RESULTS In this work, we developed a simple and effective feature enhancement guided network for yield estimation of high-density jujube. It has two key designs: Firstly, we proposed a novel label representation method based on uniform distribution, which provides a better characterization of object appearance compared to the Gaussian-kernel-based method. This new method is simpler to implement and has shown greater success. Secondly, we introduced a feature enhancement guided network for jujube counting, comprising three main components: backbone, density regression module, and feature enhancement module. The feature enhancement module plays a crucial role in perceiving the target of interest effectively and guiding the density regression module to make accurate predictions. Notably, our method takes advantage of this module to improve the overall performance of our network. To validate the effectiveness of our method, we conducted experiments on a collected dataset consisting of 692 images containing a total of 40,344 jujubes. The results demonstrate the high accuracy of our method in estimating the number of jujubes, with a mean absolute error (MAE) of 9.62 and a mean squared error (MSE) of 22.47. Importantly, our method outperforms other state-of-the-art methods by a significant margin, highlighting its superiority in jujube yield estimation. CONCLUSIONS The proposed method provides an efficient image-based technique for predicting the yield of jujubes. The study will advance the application of artificial intelligence for high-density target recognition in agriculture and forestry. By leveraging this technique, we aim to enhance the level of planting automation and optimize resource allocation.
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Affiliation(s)
- Fengna Cheng
- College of Energy and Power Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, China.
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- College of Energy and Power Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, China
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- School of Computer, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China.
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- College of Energy and Power Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, China
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- College of Energy and Power Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, China
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- College of Energy and Power Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, China
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Xu X, Geng Q, Gao F, Xiong D, Qiao H, Ma X. Segmentation and counting of wheat spike grains based on deep learning and textural feature. PLANT METHODS 2023; 19:77. [PMID: 37528413 PMCID: PMC10394929 DOI: 10.1186/s13007-023-01062-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2023] [Accepted: 07/23/2023] [Indexed: 08/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND Grain count is crucial to wheat yield composition and estimating yield parameters. However, traditional manual counting methods are time-consuming and labor-intensive. This study developed an advanced deep learning technique for the segmentation counting model of wheat grains. This model has been rigorously tested on three distinct wheat varieties: 'Bainong 307', 'Xinmai 26', and 'Jimai 336', and it has achieved unprecedented predictive counting accuracy. METHOD The images of wheat ears were taken with a smartphone at the late stage of wheat grain filling. We used image processing technology to preprocess and normalize the images to 480*480 pixels. A CBAM-HRNet wheat grain segmentation counting deep learning model based on the Convolutional Block Attention Module (CBAM) was constructed by combining deep learning, migration learning, and attention mechanism. Image processing algorithms and wheat grain texture features were used to build a grain counting and predictive counting model for wheat grains. RESULTS The CBAM-HRNet model using the CBAM was the best for wheat grain segmentation. Its segmentation accuracy of 92.04%, the mean Intersection over Union (mIoU) of 85.21%, the category mean pixel accuracy (mPA) of 91.16%, and the recall rate of 91.16% demonstrate superior robustness compared to other models such as HRNet, PSPNet, DeeplabV3+ , and U-Net. Method I for spike count, which calculates twice the number of grains on one side of the spike to determine the total number of grains, demonstrates a coefficient of determination R2 of 0.85, a mean absolute error (MAE) of 1.53, and a mean relative error (MRE) of 2.91. In contrast, Method II for spike count involves summing the number of grains on both sides to determine the total number of grains, demonstrating a coefficient of determination R2 of 0.92, an MAE) of 1.15, and an MRE) of 2.09%. CONCLUSIONS Image segmentation algorithm of the CBAM-HRNet wheat spike grain is a powerful solution that uses the CBAM to segment wheat spike grains and obtain richer semantic information. This model can effectively address the challenges of small target image segmentation and under-fitting problems in training. Additionally, the spike grain counting model can quickly and accurately predict the grain count of wheat, providing algorithmic support for efficient and intelligent wheat yield estimation.
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- Xin Xu
- College of Information and Management Science, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450002, China
- Agricultural College, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450002, China
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- College of Information and Management Science, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450002, China
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- Agricultural College, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450002, China
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- College of Information and Management Science, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450002, China
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- College of Information and Management Science, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450002, China
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- College of Information and Management Science, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450002, China.
- Agricultural College, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450002, China.
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Chen J, Zhou J, Li Q, Li H, Xia Y, Jackson R, Sun G, Zhou G, Deakin G, Jiang D, Zhou J. CropQuant-Air: an AI-powered system to enable phenotypic analysis of yield- and performance-related traits using wheat canopy imagery collected by low-cost drones. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 14:1219983. [PMID: 37404534 PMCID: PMC10316027 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1219983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2023] [Accepted: 05/26/2023] [Indexed: 07/06/2023]
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As one of the most consumed stable foods around the world, wheat plays a crucial role in ensuring global food security. The ability to quantify key yield components under complex field conditions can help breeders and researchers assess wheat's yield performance effectively. Nevertheless, it is still challenging to conduct large-scale phenotyping to analyse canopy-level wheat spikes and relevant performance traits, in the field and in an automated manner. Here, we present CropQuant-Air, an AI-powered software system that combines state-of-the-art deep learning (DL) models and image processing algorithms to enable the detection of wheat spikes and phenotypic analysis using wheat canopy images acquired by low-cost drones. The system includes the YOLACT-Plot model for plot segmentation, an optimised YOLOv7 model for quantifying the spike number per m2 (SNpM2) trait, and performance-related trait analysis using spectral and texture features at the canopy level. Besides using our labelled dataset for model training, we also employed the Global Wheat Head Detection dataset to incorporate varietal features into the DL models, facilitating us to perform reliable yield-based analysis from hundreds of varieties selected from main wheat production regions in China. Finally, we employed the SNpM2 and performance traits to develop a yield classification model using the Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) ensemble and obtained significant positive correlations between the computational analysis results and manual scoring, indicating the reliability of CropQuant-Air. To ensure that our work could reach wider researchers, we created a graphical user interface for CropQuant-Air, so that non-expert users could readily use our work. We believe that our work represents valuable advances in yield-based field phenotyping and phenotypic analysis, providing useful and reliable toolkits to enable breeders, researchers, growers, and farmers to assess crop-yield performance in a cost-effective approach.
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- Jiawei Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics & Germplasm Enhancement, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
- College of Engineering, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics & Germplasm Enhancement, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
- College of Engineering, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- Regional Technique Innovation Center for Wheat Production, Key Laboratory of Crop Physiology and Ecology in Southern China, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics & Germplasm Enhancement, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics & Germplasm Enhancement, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- Cambridge Crop Research, National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB), Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics & Germplasm Enhancement, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics & Germplasm Enhancement, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- Cambridge Crop Research, National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB), Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Regional Technique Innovation Center for Wheat Production, Key Laboratory of Crop Physiology and Ecology in Southern China, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics & Germplasm Enhancement, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
- Cambridge Crop Research, National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB), Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Gupta A, Kaur L, Kaur G. Drought stress detection technique for wheat crop using machine learning. PeerJ Comput Sci 2023; 9:e1268. [PMID: 37346648 PMCID: PMC10280683 DOI: 10.7717/peerj-cs.1268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2022] [Accepted: 02/10/2023] [Indexed: 06/23/2023]
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The workflow of this research is based on numerous hypotheses involving the usage of pre-processing methods, wheat canopy segmentation methods, and whether the existing models from the past research can be adapted to classify wheat crop water stress. Hence, to construct an automation model for water stress detection, it was found that pre-processing operations known as total variation with L1 data fidelity term (TV-L1) denoising with a Primal-Dual algorithm and min-max contrast stretching are most useful. For wheat canopy segmentation curve fit based K-means algorithm (Cfit-kmeans) was also validated for the most accurate segmentation using intersection over union metric. For automated water stress detection, rapid prototyping of machine learning models revealed that there is a need only to explore nine models. After extensive grid search-based hyper-parameter tuning of machine learning algorithms and 10 K fold cross validation it was found that out of nine different machine algorithms tested, the random forest algorithm has the highest global diagnostic accuracy of 91.164% and is the most suitable for constructing water stress detection models.
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- Ankita Gupta
- Computer Science and Engineering, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab, India
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- Computer Science and Engineering, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab, India
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- Electronics and Communication Engineering, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab, India
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Yan J, Zhao J, Cai Y, Wang S, Qiu X, Yao X, Tian Y, Zhu Y, Cao W, Zhang X. Improving multi-scale detection layers in the deep learning network for wheat spike detection based on interpretive analysis. PLANT METHODS 2023; 19:46. [PMID: 37179312 PMCID: PMC10183117 DOI: 10.1186/s13007-023-01020-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2023] [Accepted: 04/29/2023] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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BACKGROUND Detecting and counting wheat spikes is essential for predicting and measuring wheat yield. However, current wheat spike detection researches often directly apply the new network structure. There are few studies that can combine the prior knowledge of wheat spike size characteristics to design a suitable wheat spike detection model. It remains unclear whether the complex detection layers of the network play their intended role. RESULTS This study proposes an interpretive analysis method for quantitatively evaluating the role of three-scale detection layers in a deep learning-based wheat spike detection model. The attention scores in each detection layer of the YOLOv5 network are calculated using the Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping (Grad-CAM) algorithm, which compares the prior labeled wheat spike bounding boxes with the attention areas of the network. By refining the multi-scale detection layers using the attention scores, a better wheat spike detection network is obtained. The experiments on the Global Wheat Head Detection (GWHD) dataset show that the large-scale detection layer performs poorly, while the medium-scale detection layer performs best among the three-scale detection layers. Consequently, the large-scale detection layer is removed, a micro-scale detection layer is added, and the feature extraction ability in the medium-scale detection layer is enhanced. The refined model increases the detection accuracy and reduces the network complexity by decreasing the network parameters. CONCLUSION The proposed interpretive analysis method to evaluate the contribution of different detection layers in the wheat spike detection network and provide a correct network improvement scheme. The findings of this study will offer a useful reference for future applications of deep network refinement in this field.
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- Jiawei Yan
- National Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
- Key Laboratory for Crop System Analysis and Decision Making, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- National Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
- Key Laboratory for Crop System Analysis and Decision Making, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- National Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
- Key Laboratory for Crop System Analysis and Decision Making, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- National Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
- Key Laboratory for Crop System Analysis and Decision Making, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- National Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
- Key Laboratory for Crop System Analysis and Decision Making, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- National Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
- Key Laboratory for Crop System Analysis and Decision Making, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing, 210095, China
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Information Agriculture, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- National Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
- Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Modern Crop Production, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- National Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
- Key Laboratory for Crop System Analysis and Decision Making, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- National Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
- Key Laboratory for Crop System Analysis and Decision Making, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- National Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China.
- Key Laboratory for Crop System Analysis and Decision Making, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing, 210095, China.
- Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Modern Crop Production, Nanjing, 210095, China.
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Montesinos López OA, Mosqueda González BA, Montesinos López A, Crossa J. Statistical Machine-Learning Methods for Genomic Prediction Using the SKM Library. Genes (Basel) 2023; 14:1003. [PMID: 37239363 PMCID: PMC10218433 DOI: 10.3390/genes14051003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2023] [Revised: 04/20/2023] [Accepted: 04/26/2023] [Indexed: 05/28/2023] Open
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Genomic selection (GS) is revolutionizing plant breeding. However, because it is a predictive methodology, a basic understanding of statistical machine-learning methods is necessary for its successful implementation. This methodology uses a reference population that contains both the phenotypic and genotypic information of genotypes to train a statistical machine-learning method. After optimization, this method is used to make predictions of candidate lines for which only genotypic information is available. However, due to a lack of time and appropriate training, it is difficult for breeders and scientists of related fields to learn all the fundamentals of prediction algorithms. With smart or highly automated software, it is possible for these professionals to appropriately implement any state-of-the-art statistical machine-learning method for its collected data without the need for an exhaustive understanding of statistical machine-learning methods and programing. For this reason, we introduce state-of-the-art statistical machine-learning methods using the Sparse Kernel Methods (SKM) R library, with complete guidelines on how to implement seven statistical machine-learning methods that are available in this library for genomic prediction (random forest, Bayesian models, support vector machine, gradient boosted machine, generalized linear models, partial least squares, feed-forward artificial neural networks). This guide includes details of the functions required to implement each of the methods, as well as others for easily implementing different tuning strategies, cross-validation strategies, and metrics to evaluate the prediction performance and different summary functions that compute it. A toy dataset illustrates how to implement statistical machine-learning methods and facilitate their use by professionals who do not possess a strong background in machine learning and programing.
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- Centro Universitario de Ciencias Exactas e Ingenierías (CUCEI), Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara 44430, Mexico
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- International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Km 45, Carretera Mexico-Veracruz, El Batan, Texcoco 56237, Estado de Mexico, Mexico
- Colegio de Postgraduados, Montecillo 56230, Estado de Mexico, Mexico
- Centre for Crop & Food Innovation, Food Futures Institute, Murdoch University, Murdoch 6150, Australia
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Xu J, Yao J, Zhai H, Li Q, Xu Q, Xiang Y, Liu Y, Liu T, Ma H, Mao Y, Wu F, Wang Q, Feng X, Mu J, Lu Y. TrichomeYOLO: A Neural Network for Automatic Maize Trichome Counting. PLANT PHENOMICS (WASHINGTON, D.C.) 2023; 5:0024. [PMID: 36930773 PMCID: PMC10013788 DOI: 10.34133/plantphenomics.0024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2022] [Accepted: 01/17/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
Abstract
Plant trichomes are epidermal structures with a wide variety of functions in plant development and stress responses. Although the functional importance of trichomes has been realized, the tedious and time-consuming manual phenotyping process greatly limits the research progress of trichome gene cloning. Currently, there are no fully automated methods for identifying maize trichomes. We introduce TrichomeYOLO, an automated trichome counting and measuring method that uses a deep convolutional neural network, to identify the density and length of maize trichomes from scanning electron microscopy images. Our network achieved 92.1% identification accuracy on scanning electron microscopy micrographs of maize leaves, which is much better performed than the other 5 currently mainstream object detection models, Faster R-CNN, YOLOv3, YOLOv5, DETR, and Cascade R-CNN. We applied TrichomeYOLO to investigate trichome variations in a natural population of maize and achieved robust trichome identification. Our method and the pretrained model are open access in Github (https://github.com/yaober/trichomecounter). We believe TrichomeYOLO will help make efficient trichome identification and help facilitate researches on maize trichomes.
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- Jie Xu
- Maize Research Institute,
Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang 611130, Sichuan, China
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Exploration and Utilization in Southwest China,
Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang 611130, Sichuan, China
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- College of Information Engineering,
Sichuan Agricultural University, Yaan 625014, Sichuan, China
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- Maize Research Institute,
Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang 611130, Sichuan, China
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Exploration and Utilization in Southwest China,
Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang 611130, Sichuan, China
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- Maize Research Institute,
Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang 611130, Sichuan, China
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Exploration and Utilization in Southwest China,
Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang 611130, Sichuan, China
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- Maize Research Institute,
Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang 611130, Sichuan, China
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Exploration and Utilization in Southwest China,
Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang 611130, Sichuan, China
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- College of Information Engineering,
Sichuan Agricultural University, Yaan 625014, Sichuan, China
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- Triticeae Research Institute,
Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang 611130, Sichuan, China
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- Maize Research Institute,
Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang 611130, Sichuan, China
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Exploration and Utilization in Southwest China,
Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang 611130, Sichuan, China
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- Maize Research Institute,
Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang 611130, Sichuan, China
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Exploration and Utilization in Southwest China,
Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang 611130, Sichuan, China
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- College of Chemistry and Life Sciences,
Chengdu Normal University, Wenjiang 611130, Sichuan, China
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- Maize Research Institute,
Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang 611130, Sichuan, China
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Exploration and Utilization in Southwest China,
Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang 611130, Sichuan, China
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- Maize Research Institute,
Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang 611130, Sichuan, China
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Exploration and Utilization in Southwest China,
Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang 611130, Sichuan, China
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- Maize Research Institute,
Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang 611130, Sichuan, China
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Exploration and Utilization in Southwest China,
Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang 611130, Sichuan, China
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- College of Information Engineering,
Sichuan Agricultural University, Yaan 625014, Sichuan, China
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- Maize Research Institute,
Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang 611130, Sichuan, China
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Exploration and Utilization in Southwest China,
Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang 611130, Sichuan, China
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Bai X, Liu P, Cao Z, Lu H, Xiong H, Yang A, Cai Z, Wang J, Yao J. Rice Plant Counting, Locating, and Sizing Method Based on High-Throughput UAV RGB Images. PLANT PHENOMICS (WASHINGTON, D.C.) 2023; 5:0020. [PMID: 37040495 PMCID: PMC10076056 DOI: 10.34133/plantphenomics.0020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2022] [Accepted: 12/09/2022] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
Abstract
Rice plant counting is crucial for many applications in rice production, such as yield estimation, growth diagnosis, disaster loss assessment, etc. Currently, rice counting still heavily relies on tedious and time-consuming manual operation. To alleviate the workload of rice counting, we employed an UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) to collect the RGB images of the paddy field. Then, we proposed a new rice plant counting, locating, and sizing method (RiceNet), which consists of one feature extractor frontend and 3 feature decoder modules, namely, density map estimator, plant location detector, and plant size estimator. In RiceNet, rice plant attention mechanism and positive-negative loss are designed to improve the ability to distinguish plants from background and the quality of the estimated density maps. To verify the validity of our method, we propose a new UAV-based rice counting dataset, which contains 355 images and 257,793 manual labeled points. Experiment results show that the mean absolute error and root mean square error of the proposed RiceNet are 8.6 and 11.2, respectively. Moreover, we validated the performance of our method with two other popular crop datasets. On these three datasets, our method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods. Results suggest that RiceNet can accurately and efficiently estimate the number of rice plants and replace the traditional manual method.
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- Xiaodong Bai
- School of Computer Science and Technology, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China
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- School of Telecommunication and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210003, China
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- School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
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- School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
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- School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119077, Singapore
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- Agricultural Meteorological Center, Jiangxi Meteorological Bureau, Nanchang 330045, China
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- Agricultural Meteorological Center, Jiangxi Meteorological Bureau, Nanchang 330045, China
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- Agricultural Meteorological Center, Jiangxi Meteorological Bureau, Nanchang 330045, China
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- School of Telecommunication and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210003, China
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Droukas L, Doulgeri Z, Tsakiridis NL, Triantafyllou D, Kleitsiotis I, Mariolis I, Giakoumis D, Tzovaras D, Kateris D, Bochtis D. A Survey of Robotic Harvesting Systems and Enabling Technologies. J INTELL ROBOT SYST 2023; 107:21. [PMID: 36721646 PMCID: PMC9881528 DOI: 10.1007/s10846-022-01793-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2022] [Accepted: 11/25/2022] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
Abstract
This paper presents a comprehensive review of ground agricultural robotic systems and applications with special focus on harvesting that span research and commercial products and results, as well as their enabling technologies. The majority of literature concerns the development of crop detection, field navigation via vision and their related challenges. Health monitoring, yield estimation, water status inspection, seed planting and weed removal are frequently encountered tasks. Regarding robotic harvesting, apples, strawberries, tomatoes and sweet peppers are mainly the crops considered in publications, research projects and commercial products. The reported harvesting agricultural robotic solutions, typically consist of a mobile platform, a single robotic arm/manipulator and various navigation/vision systems. This paper reviews reported development of specific functionalities and hardware, typically required by an operating agricultural robot harvester; they include (a) vision systems, (b) motion planning/navigation methodologies (for the robotic platform and/or arm), (c) Human-Robot-Interaction (HRI) strategies with 3D visualization, (d) system operation planning & grasping strategies and (e) robotic end-effector/gripper design. Clearly, automated agriculture and specifically autonomous harvesting via robotic systems is a research area that remains wide open, offering several challenges where new contributions can be made.
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- Leonidas Droukas
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Thessaloniki, 54124 Greece
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Thessaloniki, 54124 Greece
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Thessaloniki, 54124 Greece
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- Information Technologies Institute (ITI), Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), Thessaloniki, 57001 Greece
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- Information Technologies Institute (ITI), Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), Thessaloniki, 57001 Greece
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- Information Technologies Institute (ITI), Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), Thessaloniki, 57001 Greece
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- Information Technologies Institute (ITI), Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), Thessaloniki, 57001 Greece
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- Information Technologies Institute (ITI), Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), Thessaloniki, 57001 Greece
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- Institute for Bio-Economy and Agri-Technology (iBO), Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), Volos, 38333 Greece
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- Institute for Bio-Economy and Agri-Technology (iBO), Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), Volos, 38333 Greece
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Galuszynski NC, Duker R, Potts AJ, Kattenborn T. Automated mapping of Portulacaria afra canopies for restoration monitoring with convolutional neural networks and heterogeneous unmanned aerial vehicle imagery. PeerJ 2022; 10:e14219. [PMID: 36262418 PMCID: PMC9575683 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.14219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2022] [Accepted: 09/20/2022] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
Abstract
Ecosystem restoration and reforestation often operate at large scales, whereas monitoring practices are usually limited to spatially restricted field measurements that are (i) time- and labour-intensive, and (ii) unable to accurately quantify restoration success over hundreds to thousands of hectares. Recent advances in remote sensing technologies paired with deep learning algorithms provide an unprecedented opportunity for monitoring changes in vegetation cover at spatial and temporal scales. Such data can feed directly into adaptive management practices and provide insights into restoration and regeneration dynamics. Here, we demonstrate that convolutional neural network (CNN) segmentation algorithms can accurately classify the canopy cover of Portulacaria afra Jacq. in imagery acquired using different models of unoccupied aerial vehicles (UAVs) and under variable light intensities. Portulacaria afra is the target species for the restoration of Albany Subtropical Thicket vegetation, endemic to South Africa, where canopy cover is challenging to measure due to the dense, tangled structure of this vegetation. The automated classification strategy presented here is widely transferable to restoration monitoring as its application does not require any knowledge of the CNN model or specialist training, and can be applied to imagery generated by a range of UAV models. This will reduce the sampling effort required to track restoration trajectories in space and time, contributing to more effective management of restoration sites, and promoting collaboration between scientists, practitioners and landowners.
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- Department of Botany, Nelson Mandela University, Gqeberha, South Africa
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- Department of Botany, Nelson Mandela University, Gqeberha, South Africa
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- Remote Sensing Centre for Earth System Research (RSC4Earth), Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany,German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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Zaji A, Liu Z, Xiao G, Sangha JS, Ruan Y. A survey on deep learning applications in wheat phenotyping. Appl Soft Comput 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2022.109761] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Maji AK, Marwaha S, Kumar S, Arora A, Chinnusamy V, Islam S. SlypNet: Spikelet-based yield prediction of wheat using advanced plant phenotyping and computer vision techniques. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:889853. [PMID: 35991448 PMCID: PMC9386505 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.889853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2022] [Accepted: 06/29/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The application of computer vision in agriculture has already contributed immensely to restructuring the existing field practices starting from the sowing to the harvesting. Among the different plant parts, the economic part, the yield, has the highest importance and becomes the ultimate goal for the farming community. It depends on many genetic and environmental factors, so this curiosity about knowing the yield brought several precise pre-harvest prediction methods using different ways. Out of those techniques, non-invasive yield prediction techniques using computer vision have been proved to be the most efficient and trusted platform. This study developed a novel methodology, called SlypNet, using advanced deep learning networks, i.e., Mask R-CNN and U-Net, which can extract various plant morphological features like spike and spikelet from the visual image of the wheat plant and provide a high-throughput yield estimate with great precision. Mask R-CNN outperformed previous networks in spike detection by its precise detection performance with a mean average precision (mAP) of 97.57%, a F1 score of 0.67, and an MCC of 0.91 by overcoming several natural field constraints like overlapping and background interference, variable resolution, and high bushiness of plants. The spikelet detection module's accuracy and consistency were tested with about 99% validation accuracy of the model and the least error, i.e., a mean square error of 1.3 from a set of typical and complex views of wheat spikes. Spikelet yield cumulatively showed the probable production capability of each plant. Our method presents an integrated deep learning platform of spikelet-based yield prediction comprising spike and spikelet detection, leading to higher precision over the existing methods.
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- Arpan K. Maji
- Division of Computer Application, Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, India
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- Division of Computer Application, Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, India
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- Division of Crop Physiology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (ICAR), New Delhi, India
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- Division of Computer Application, Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, India
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- Division of Crop Physiology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (ICAR), New Delhi, India
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- Division of Computer Application, Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, India
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Zhu R, Wang X, Yan Z, Qiao Y, Tian H, Hu Z, Zhang Z, Li Y, Zhao H, Xin D, Chen Q. Exploring Soybean Flower and Pod Variation Patterns During Reproductive Period Based on Fusion Deep Learning. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:922030. [PMID: 35909768 PMCID: PMC9326440 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.922030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2022] [Accepted: 06/20/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The soybean flower and the pod drop are important factors in soybean yield, and the use of computer vision techniques to obtain the phenotypes of flowers and pods in bulk, as well as in a quick and accurate manner, is a key aspect of the study of the soybean flower and pod drop rate (PDR). This paper compared a variety of deep learning algorithms for identifying and counting soybean flowers and pods, and found that the Faster R-CNN model had the best performance. Furthermore, the Faster R-CNN model was further improved and optimized based on the characteristics of soybean flowers and pods. The accuracy of the final model for identifying flowers and pods was increased to 94.36 and 91%, respectively. Afterward, a fusion model for soybean flower and pod recognition and counting was proposed based on the Faster R-CNN model, where the coefficient of determinationR2 between counts of soybean flowers and pods by the fusion model and manual counts reached 0.965 and 0.98, respectively. The above results show that the fusion model is a robust recognition and counting algorithm that can reduce labor intensity and improve efficiency. Its application will greatly facilitate the study of the variable patterns of soybean flowers and pods during the reproductive period. Finally, based on the fusion model, we explored the variable patterns of soybean flowers and pods during the reproductive period, the spatial distribution patterns of soybean flowers and pods, and soybean flower and pod drop patterns.
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- Rongsheng Zhu
- College of Arts and Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
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- College of Engineering, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
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- College of Engineering, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
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- College of Engineering, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
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- College of Agriculture, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
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- College of Agriculture, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
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- College of Arts and Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
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- College of Arts and Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
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- College of Arts and Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
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- College of Agriculture, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
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- College of Agriculture, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
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Deng R, Qi L, Pan W, Wang Z, Fu D, Yang X. Automatic estimation of rice grain number based on a convolutional neural network. JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. A, OPTICS, IMAGE SCIENCE, AND VISION 2022; 39:1034-1044. [PMID: 36215533 DOI: 10.1364/josaa.459580] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2022] [Accepted: 04/26/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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The grain number on the rice panicle, which directly determines the rice yield, is a very important agronomic trait in rice breeding and yield-related research. However, manual counting of grain number per rice panicle is time-consuming, error-prone, and laborious. In this study, a novel prototype, dubbed the "GN-System," was developed for the automatic calculation of grain number per rice panicle based on a deep convolutional neural network. First, a whole panicle grain detection (WPGD) model was established using the Cascade R-CNN method embedded with the feature pyramid network for grain recognition and location. Then, a GN-System integrated with the WPGD model was developed to automatically calculate grain number per rice panicle. The performance of the GN-System was evaluated through estimated stability and accuracy. One hundred twenty-four panicle samples were tested to evaluate the estimated stability of the GN-System. The results showed that the coefficient of determination (R2) was 0.810, the mean absolute percentage error was 8.44%, and the root mean square error was 16.73. Also, another 12 panicle samples were tested to further evaluate the estimated accuracy of the GN-System. The results revealed that the mean accuracy of the GN-System reached 90.6%. The GN-System, which can quickly and accurately predict the grain number per rice panicle, can provide an effective, convenient, and low-cost tool for yield evaluation, crop breeding, and genetic research. It also has great potential in assisting phenotypic research.
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Khaki S, Safaei N, Pham H, Wang L. WheatNet: A lightweight convolutional neural network for high-throughput image-based wheat head detection and counting. Neurocomputing 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2022.03.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Alkhudaydi T, De La lglesia B. Counting spikelets from infield wheat crop images using fully convolutional networks. Neural Comput Appl 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s00521-022-07392-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The detection and counting of wheat ears are essential for crop field management, but the adhesion and obscuration of wheat ears limit detection accuracy, with problems such as false detection, missed detection, and insufficient feature extraction capability. Previous research results have shown that most methods for detecting wheat ears are of two types: colour and texture extracted by machine learning methods or convolutional neural networks. Therefore, we proposed an improved YOLO v5 algorithm based on a shallow feature layer. There are two main core ideas: (1) to increase the perceptual field by adding quadruple down-sampling in the feature pyramid to improve the detection of small targets, and (2) introducing the CBAM attention mechanism into the neural network to solve the problem of gradient disappearance during training. CBAM is a model that includes both spatial and channel attention, and by adding this module, the feature extraction capability of the network can be improved. Finally, to make the model have better generalization ability, we proposed the Mosaic-8 data enhancement method, with adjusted loss function and modified regression formula for the target frame. The experimental results show that the improved algorithm has an mAP of 94.3%, an accuracy of 88.5%, and a recall of 98.1%. Compared with the relevant model, the improvement effect is noticeable. It shows that the model can effectively overcome the noise of the field environment to meet the practical requirements of wheat ear detection and counting.
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Gabur I, Simioniuc DP, Snowdon RJ, Cristea D. Machine Learning Applied to the Search for Nonlinear Features in Breeding Populations. Front Artif Intell 2022; 5:876578. [PMID: 35669178 PMCID: PMC9164111 DOI: 10.3389/frai.2022.876578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2022] [Accepted: 04/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Large plant breeding populations are traditionally a source of novel allelic diversity and are at the core of selection efforts for elite material. Finding rare diversity requires a deep understanding of biological interactions between the genetic makeup of one genotype and its environmental conditions. Most modern breeding programs still rely on linear regression models to solve this problem, generalizing the complex genotype by phenotype interactions through manually constructed linear features. However, the identification of positive alleles vs. background can be addressed using deep learning approaches that have the capacity to learn complex nonlinear functions for the inputs. Machine learning (ML) is an artificial intelligence (AI) approach involving a range of algorithms to learn from input data sets and predict outcomes in other related samples. This paper describes a variety of techniques that include supervised and unsupervised ML algorithms to improve our understanding of nonlinear interactions from plant breeding data sets. Feature selection (FS) methods are combined with linear and nonlinear predictors and compared to traditional prediction methods used in plant breeding. Recent advances in ML allowed the construction of complex models that have the capacity to better differentiate between positive alleles and the genetic background. Using real plant breeding program data, we show that ML methods have the ability to outperform current approaches, increase prediction accuracies, decrease the computing time drastically, and improve the detection of important alleles involved in qualitative or quantitative traits.
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- Iulian Gabur
- Department of Plant Breeding, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
- Department of Plant Sciences, Iasi University of Life Sciences, Iasi, Romania
- *Correspondence: Iulian Gabur
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- Department of Plant Breeding, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Computer Science, Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch, Iasi, Romania
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Danilevicz MF, Gill M, Anderson R, Batley J, Bennamoun M, Bayer PE, Edwards D. Plant Genotype to Phenotype Prediction Using Machine Learning. Front Genet 2022; 13:822173. [PMID: 35664329 PMCID: PMC9159391 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2022.822173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2021] [Accepted: 03/07/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Genomic prediction tools support crop breeding based on statistical methods, such as the genomic best linear unbiased prediction (GBLUP). However, these tools are not designed to capture non-linear relationships within multi-dimensional datasets, or deal with high dimension datasets such as imagery collected by unmanned aerial vehicles. Machine learning (ML) algorithms have the potential to surpass the prediction accuracy of current tools used for genotype to phenotype prediction, due to their capacity to autonomously extract data features and represent their relationships at multiple levels of abstraction. This review addresses the challenges of applying statistical and machine learning methods for predicting phenotypic traits based on genetic markers, environment data, and imagery for crop breeding. We present the advantages and disadvantages of explainable model structures, discuss the potential of machine learning models for genotype to phenotype prediction in crop breeding, and the challenges, including the scarcity of high-quality datasets, inconsistent metadata annotation and the requirements of ML models.
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- Monica F. Danilevicz
- School of Biological Sciences and Institute of Agriculture, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences and Institute of Agriculture, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences and Institute of Agriculture, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences and Institute of Agriculture, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
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- School of Physics, Mathematics and Computing, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences and Institute of Agriculture, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences and Institute of Agriculture, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
- *Correspondence: David Edwards,
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Unlersen MF, Sonmez ME, Aslan MF, Demir B, Aydin N, Sabanci K, Ropelewska E. CNN–SVM hybrid model for varietal classification of wheat based on bulk samples. Eur Food Res Technol 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s00217-022-04029-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Wang P, Meng F, Donaldson P, Horan S, Panchy NL, Vischulis E, Winship E, Conner JK, Krysan PJ, Shiu S, Lehti‐Shiu MD. High-throughput measurement of plant fitness traits with an object detection method using Faster R-CNN. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2022; 234:1521-1533. [PMID: 35218008 PMCID: PMC9310946 DOI: 10.1111/nph.18056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2021] [Accepted: 02/09/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Revealing the contributions of genes to plant phenotype is frequently challenging because loss-of-function effects may be subtle or masked by varying degrees of genetic redundancy. Such effects can potentially be detected by measuring plant fitness, which reflects the cumulative effects of genetic changes over the lifetime of a plant. However, fitness is challenging to measure accurately, particularly in species with high fecundity and relatively small propagule sizes such as Arabidopsis thaliana. An image segmentation-based method using the software ImageJ and an object detection-based method using the Faster Region-based Convolutional Neural Network (R-CNN) algorithm were used for measuring two Arabidopsis fitness traits: seed and fruit counts. The segmentation-based method was error-prone (correlation between true and predicted seed counts, r2 = 0.849) because seeds touching each other were undercounted. By contrast, the object detection-based algorithm yielded near perfect seed counts (r2 = 0.9996) and highly accurate fruit counts (r2 = 0.980). Comparing seed counts for wild-type and 12 mutant lines revealed fitness effects for three genes; fruit counts revealed the same effects for two genes. Our study provides analysis pipelines and models to facilitate the investigation of Arabidopsis fitness traits and demonstrates the importance of examining fitness traits when studying gene functions.
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- Peipei Wang
- Department of Plant BiologyMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMI48824USA
- DOE Great Lake Bioenergy Research CenterMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMI48824USA
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- Department of Plant BiologyMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMI48824USA
- DOE Great Lake Bioenergy Research CenterMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMI48824USA
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- Department of Plant BiologyMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMI48824USA
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- Department of Plant BiologyMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMI48824USA
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- National Institute for Mathematical and Biological SynthesisUniversity of Tennessee1122 Volunteer Blvd, Suite 106KnoxvilleTN37996‐3410USA
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- Genetics and Genome Sciences Graduate ProgramMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMI48824USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMI48824USA
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- Department of Plant BiologyMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMI48824USA
- W.K. Kellogg Biological StationMichigan State University3700 E. Gull Lake DriveHickory CornersMI49060USA
- Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Graduate ProgramMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMI48824USA
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- Department of HorticultureUniversity of Wisconsin‐MadisonMadisonWI53705USA
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- Department of Plant BiologyMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMI48824USA
- DOE Great Lake Bioenergy Research CenterMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMI48824USA
- Genetics and Genome Sciences Graduate ProgramMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMI48824USA
- Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Graduate ProgramMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMI48824USA
- Department of Computational Mathematics, Science, and EngineeringMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMI48824USA
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Kuroki K, Yan K, Iwata H, Shimizu KK, Tameshige T, Nasuda S, Guo W. Development of a high-throughput field phenotyping rover optimized for size-limited breeding fields as open-source hardware. BREEDING SCIENCE 2022; 72:66-74. [PMID: 36045888 PMCID: PMC8987849 DOI: 10.1270/jsbbs.21059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2021] [Accepted: 11/30/2021] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Phenotyping is a critical process in plant breeding, especially when there is an increasing demand for streamlining a selection process in a breeding program. Since manual phenotyping has limited efficiency, high-throughput phenotyping methods are recently popularized owing to progress in sensor and image processing technologies. However, in a size-limited breeding field, which is common in Japan and other Asian countries, it is challenging to introduce large machinery in the field or fly unmanned aerial vehicles over the field. In this study, we developed a ground-based high-throughput field phenotyping rover that could be easily introduced to a field regardless of the scale and location of the field even without special facilities. We also made the field rover open-source hardware, making its system available to public for easy modification, so that anyone can build one for their own use at a low cost. The trial run of the field rover revealed that it allowed the collection of detailed remote-sensing images of plants and quantitative analyses based on the images. The results suggest that the field rover developed in this study could allow efficient phenotyping of plants especially in a small breeding field.
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- Ken Kuroki
- Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawaoiwake-cho, Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
- Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- LabRomance Inc, 1-3-29-2F Ureshino, Fujimino, Saitama 356-0056, Japan
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- Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-8657
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich 8057, Switzerland
- Kihara Institute for Biological Research, Yokohama City University, 641-12 Maioka, Totsuka, Yokohama, Kanagawa 244-0813, Japan
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- Kihara Institute for Biological Research, Yokohama City University, 641-12 Maioka, Totsuka, Yokohama, Kanagawa 244-0813, Japan
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Niigata University, 8050 Ikarashi 2-no-cho, Nishi, Niigata 950-2181, Japan
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- Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawaoiwake-cho, Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Midori, Nishitokyo, Tokyo 188-0002, Japan
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Sethy PK. Identification of wheat tiller based on AlexNet-feature fusion. MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS 2022; 81:8309-8316. [DOI: 10.1007/s11042-022-12286-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2021] [Revised: 11/22/2021] [Accepted: 01/14/2022] [Indexed: 08/02/2023]
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Ninomiya S. High-throughput field crop phenotyping: current status and challenges. BREEDING SCIENCE 2022; 72:3-18. [PMID: 36045897 PMCID: PMC8987842 DOI: 10.1270/jsbbs.21069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2021] [Accepted: 12/16/2021] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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In contrast to the rapid advances made in plant genotyping, plant phenotyping is considered a bottleneck in plant science. This has promoted high-throughput plant phenotyping (HTP) studies, resulting in an exponential increase in phenotyping-related publications. The development of HTP was originally intended for use as indoor HTP technologies for model plant species under controlled environments. However, this subsequently shifted to HTP for use in crops in fields. Although HTP in fields is much more difficult to conduct due to unstable environmental conditions compared to HTP in controlled environments, recent advances in HTP technology have allowed these difficulties to be overcome, allowing for rapid, efficient, non-destructive, non-invasive, quantitative, repeatable, and objective phenotyping. Recent HTP developments have been accelerated by the advances in data analysis, sensors, and robot technologies, including machine learning, image analysis, three dimensional (3D) reconstruction, image sensors, laser sensors, environmental sensors, and drones, along with high-speed computational resources. This article provides an overview of recent HTP technologies, focusing mainly on canopy-based phenotypes of major crops, such as canopy height, canopy coverage, canopy biomass, and canopy stressed appearance, in addition to crop organ detection and counting in the fields. Current topics in field HTP are also presented, followed by a discussion on the low rates of adoption of HTP in practical breeding programs.
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- Seishi Ninomiya
- Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Nishitokyo, Tokyo 188-0002, Japan
- Plant Phenomics Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
- Corresponding author (e-mail: )
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Liang X, Xu X, Wang Z, He L, Zhang K, Liang B, Ye J, Shi J, Wu X, Dai M, Yang W. StomataScorer: a portable and high-throughput leaf stomata trait scorer combined with deep learning and an improved CV model. PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL 2022; 20:577-591. [PMID: 34717024 PMCID: PMC8882810 DOI: 10.1111/pbi.13741] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2021] [Revised: 09/26/2021] [Accepted: 10/16/2021] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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To measure stomatal traits automatically and nondestructively, a new method for detecting stomata and extracting stomatal traits was proposed. Two portable microscopes with different resolutions (TipScope with a 40× lens attached to a smartphone and ProScope HR2 with a 400× lens) are used to acquire images of living stomata in maize leaves. FPN model was used to detect stomata in the TipScope images and measure the stomata number and stomatal density. Faster RCNN model was used to detect opening and closing stomata in the ProScope HR2 images, and the number of opening and closing stomata was measured. An improved CV model was used to segment pores of opening stomata, and a total of 6 pore traits were measured. Compared to manual measurements, the square of the correlation coefficient (R2 ) of the 6 pore traits was higher than 0.85, and the mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) of these traits was 0.02%-6.34%. The dynamic stomata changes between wild-type B73 and mutant Zmfab1a were explored under drought and re-watering condition. The results showed that Zmfab1a had a higher resilience than B73 on leaf stomata. In addition, the proposed method was tested to measure the leaf stomatal traits of other nine species. In conclusion, a portable and low-cost stomata phenotyping method that could accurately and dynamically measure the characteristic parameters of living stomata was developed. An open-access and user-friendly web portal was also developed which has the potential to be used in the stomata phenotyping of large populations in the future.
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- Xiuying Liang
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic ImprovementNational Center of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan)College of EngineeringHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhanChina
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic ImprovementNational Center of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan)College of EngineeringHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhanChina
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic ImprovementNational Center of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan)College of EngineeringHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhanChina
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic ImprovementNational Center of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan)College of EngineeringHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhanChina
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic ImprovementNational Center of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan)College of EngineeringHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhanChina
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic ImprovementNational Center of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan)College of EngineeringHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhanChina
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic ImprovementNational Center of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan)College of EngineeringHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhanChina
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic ImprovementNational Center of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan)College of EngineeringHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhanChina
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic ImprovementNational Center of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan)College of EngineeringHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhanChina
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic ImprovementNational Center of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan)College of EngineeringHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhanChina
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic ImprovementNational Center of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan)College of EngineeringHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhanChina
- Shenzhen BranchGuangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern AgricultureGenome Analysis Laboratory of the Ministry of AgricultureAgricultural Genomics Institute at ShenzhenChinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesShenzhenChina
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Rawat S, Chandra AL, Desai SV, Balasubramanian VN, Ninomiya S, Guo W. How Useful Is Image-Based Active Learning for Plant Organ Segmentation? PLANT PHENOMICS 2022; 2022:9795275. [PMID: 35280929 PMCID: PMC8897744 DOI: 10.34133/2022/9795275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2021] [Accepted: 01/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Training deep learning models typically requires a huge amount of labeled data which is expensive to acquire, especially in dense prediction tasks such as semantic segmentation. Moreover, plant phenotyping datasets pose additional challenges of heavy occlusion and varied lighting conditions which makes annotations more time-consuming to obtain. Active learning helps in reducing the annotation cost by selecting samples for labeling which are most informative to the model, thus improving model performance with fewer annotations. Active learning for semantic segmentation has been well studied on datasets such as PASCAL VOC and Cityscapes. However, its effectiveness on plant datasets has not received much importance. To bridge this gap, we empirically study and benchmark the effectiveness of four uncertainty-based active learning strategies on three natural plant organ segmentation datasets. We also study their behaviour in response to variations in training configurations in terms of augmentations used, the scale of training images, active learning batch sizes, and train-validation set splits.
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- Shivangana Rawat
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India
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- Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan
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- Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan
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Liu C, Wang K, Lu H, Cao Z. Dynamic Color Transform Networks for Wheat Head Detection. PLANT PHENOMICS 2022; 2022:9818452. [PMID: 35198987 PMCID: PMC8829536 DOI: 10.34133/2022/9818452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2021] [Accepted: 01/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Wheat head detection can measure wheat traits such as head density and head characteristics. Standard wheat breeding largely relies on manual observation to detect wheat heads, yielding a tedious and inefficient procedure. The emergence of affordable camera platforms provides opportunities for deploying computer vision (CV) algorithms in wheat head detection, enabling automated measurements of wheat traits. Accurate wheat head detection, however, is challenging due to the variability of observation circumstances and the uncertainty of wheat head appearances. In this work, we propose a simple but effective idea—dynamic color transform (DCT)—for accurate wheat head detection. This idea is based on an observation that modifying the color channel of an input image can significantly alleviate false negatives and therefore improve detection results. DCT follows a linear color transform and can be easily implemented as a dynamic network. A key property of DCT is that the transform parameters are data-dependent such that illumination variations can be corrected adaptively. The DCT network can be incorporated into any existing object detectors. Experimental results on the Global Wheat Detection Dataset (GWHD) 2021 show that DCT can achieve notable improvements with negligible overhead parameters. In addition, DCT plays an important role in our solution participating in the Global Wheat Challenge (GWC) 2021, where our solution ranks the first on the initial public leaderboard, with an Average Domain Accuracy (ADA) of 0.821, and obtains the runner-up reward on the final private testing set, with an ADA of 0.695.
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- Chengxin Liu
- Key Laboratory of Image Processing and Intelligent Control, Ministry of Education, School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Image Processing and Intelligent Control, Ministry of Education, School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Image Processing and Intelligent Control, Ministry of Education, School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Image Processing and Intelligent Control, Ministry of Education, School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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UAV Oblique Imagery with an Adaptive Micro-Terrain Model for Estimation of Leaf Area Index and Height of Maize Canopy from 3D Point Clouds. REMOTE SENSING 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/rs14030585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Leaf area index (LAI) and height are two critical measures of maize crops that are used in ecophysiological and morphological studies for growth evaluation, health assessment, and yield prediction. However, mapping spatial and temporal variability of LAI in fields using handheld tools and traditional techniques is a tedious and costly pointwise operation that provides information only within limited areas. The objective of this study was to evaluate the reliability of mapping LAI and height of maize canopy from 3D point clouds generated from UAV oblique imagery with the adaptive micro-terrain model. The experiment was carried out in a field planted with three cultivars having different canopy shapes and four replicates covering a total area of 48 × 36 m. RGB images in nadir and oblique view were acquired from the maize field at six different time slots during the growing season. Images were processed by Agisoft Metashape to generate 3D point clouds using the structure from motion method and were later processed by MATLAB to obtain clean canopy structure, including height and density. The LAI was estimated by a multivariate linear regression model using crop canopy descriptors derived from the 3D point cloud, which account for height and leaf density distribution along the canopy height. A simulation analysis based on the Sine function effectively demonstrated the micro-terrain model from point clouds. For the ground truth data, a randomized block design with 24 sample areas was used to manually measure LAI, height, N-pen data, and yield during the growing season. It was found that canopy height data from the 3D point clouds has a relatively strong correlation (R2 = 0.89, 0.86, 0.78) with the manual measurement for three cultivars with CH90. The proposed methodology allows a cost-effective high-resolution mapping of in-field LAI index extraction through UAV 3D data to be used as an alternative to the conventional LAI assessments even in inaccessible regions.
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Dong Y, Liu Y, Kang H, Li C, Liu P, Liu Z. Lightweight and efficient neural network with SPSA attention for wheat ear detection. PeerJ Comput Sci 2022; 8:e931. [PMID: 35494849 PMCID: PMC9044259 DOI: 10.7717/peerj-cs.931] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2021] [Accepted: 03/03/2022] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Advancements in deep neural networks have made remarkable leap-forwards in crop detection. However, the detection of wheat ears is an important yet challenging task due to the complex background, dense targets, and overlaps between wheat ears. Currently, many detectors have made significant progress in improving detection accuracy. However, some of them are not able to make a good balance between computational cost and precision to meet the needs of deployment in real world. To address these issues, a lightweight and efficient wheat ear detector with Shuffle Polarized Self-Attention (SPSA) is proposed in this paper. Specifically, we first utilize a lightweight backbone network with asymmetric convolution for effective feature extraction. Next, SPSA attention is given to adaptively select focused positions and produce a more discriminative representation of the features. This strategy introduces polarized self-attention to spatial dimension and channel dimension and adopts Shuffle Units to combine those two types of attention mechanisms effectively. Finally, the TanhExp activation function is adopted to accelerate the inference speed and reduce the training time, and CIOU loss is used as the border regression loss function to enhance the detection ability of occlusion and overlaps between targets. Experimental results on the Global Wheat Head Detection dataset show that our method achieves superior detection performance compared with other state-of-the-art approaches.
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- Yan Dong
- School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Zhongyuan University of Technology, ZhengZhou, China
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- School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Zhongyuan University of Technology, ZhengZhou, China
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- Department of Statistics and Data Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Zhongyuan University of Technology, ZhengZhou, China
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- Department of Computer Science, University of York, York, United Kingdom
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- School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Zhongyuan University of Technology, ZhengZhou, China
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Wen C, Wu J, Chen H, Su H, Chen X, Li Z, Yang C. Wheat Spike Detection and Counting in the Field Based on SpikeRetinaNet. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:821717. [PMID: 35310650 PMCID: PMC8928106 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.821717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2021] [Accepted: 01/17/2022] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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The number of wheat spikes per unit area is one of the most important agronomic traits associated with wheat yield. However, quick and accurate detection for the counting of wheat spikes faces persistent challenges due to the complexity of wheat field conditions. This work has trained a RetinaNet (SpikeRetinaNet) based on several optimizations to detect and count wheat spikes efficiently. This RetinaNet consists of several improvements. First, a weighted bidirectional feature pyramid network (BiFPN) was introduced into the feature pyramid network (FPN) of RetinaNet, which could fuse multiscale features to recognize wheat spikes in different varieties and complicated environments. Then, to detect objects more efficiently, focal loss and attention modules were added. Finally, soft non-maximum suppression (Soft-NMS) was used to solve the occlusion problem. Based on these improvements, the new network detector was created and tested on the Global Wheat Head Detection (GWHD) dataset supplemented with wheat-wheatgrass spike detection (WSD) images. The WSD images were supplemented with new varieties of wheat, which makes the mixed dataset richer in species. The method of this study achieved 0.9262 for mAP50, which improved by 5.59, 49.06, 2.79, 1.35, and 7.26% compared to the state-of-the-art RetinaNet, single-shot multiBox detector (SSD), You Only Look Once version3 (Yolov3), You Only Look Once version4 (Yolov4), and faster region-based convolutional neural network (Faster-RCNN), respectively. In addition, the counting accuracy reached 0.9288, which was improved from other methods as well. Our implementation code and partial validation data are available at https://github.com/wujians122/The-Wheat-Spikes-Detecting-and-Counting.
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- Changji Wen
- College of Information and Technology, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun, China
- Institute for the Smart Agriculture, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun, China
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- College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences, University of Minnesota, Paul, MN, United States
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- College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences, University of Minnesota, Paul, MN, United States
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- College of Information and Technology, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun, China
- Institute for the Smart Agriculture, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun, China
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- College of Information and Technology, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun, China
- Institute for the Smart Agriculture, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun, China
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- College of Information and Technology, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun, China
- Key Laboratory of Bionic Engineering, Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences, University of Minnesota, Paul, MN, United States
- *Correspondence: Changji Wen,
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Zang H, Wang Y, Ru L, Zhou M, Chen D, Zhao Q, Zhang J, Li G, Zheng G. Detection method of wheat spike improved YOLOv5s based on the attention mechanism. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:993244. [PMID: 36247573 PMCID: PMC9554473 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.993244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2022] [Accepted: 08/30/2022] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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In wheat breeding, spike number is a key indicator for evaluating wheat yield, and the timely and accurate acquisition of wheat spike number is of great practical significance for yield prediction. In actual production; the method of using an artificial field survey to count wheat spikes is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Therefore, this paper proposes a method based on YOLOv5s with an improved attention mechanism, which can accurately detect the number of small-scale wheat spikes and better solve the problems of occlusion and cross-overlapping of the wheat spikes. This method introduces an efficient channel attention module (ECA) in the C3 module of the backbone structure of the YOLOv5s network model; at the same time, the global attention mechanism module (GAM) is inserted between the neck structure and the head structure; the attention mechanism can be more Effectively extract feature information and suppress useless information. The result shows that the accuracy of the improved YOLOv5s model reached 71.61% in the task of wheat spike number, which was 4.95% higher than that of the standard YOLOv5s model and had higher counting accuracy. The improved YOLOv5s and YOLOv5m have similar parameters, while RMSE and MEA are reduced by 7.62 and 6.47, respectively, and the performance is better than YOLOv5l. Therefore, the improved YOLOv5s method improves its applicability in complex field environments and provides a technical reference for the automatic identification of wheat spike numbers and yield estimation. Labeled images, source code, and trained models are available at: https://github.com/228384274/improved-yolov5.
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- Hecang Zang
- Institute of Agricultural Economics and Information, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, China
- Key Laboratory of Huang-Huai-Hai Smart Agricultural Technology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Zhengzhou, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Zhengzhou Normal University, Zhengzhou, China
- *Correspondence: Yanjing Wang,
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- College of Computer and Information Engineering, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, China
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- Institute of Agricultural Economics and Information, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, China
- Key Laboratory of Huang-Huai-Hai Smart Agricultural Technology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Zhengzhou, China
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- Institute of Agricultural Economics and Information, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, China
- Key Laboratory of Huang-Huai-Hai Smart Agricultural Technology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Zhengzhou, China
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- Institute of Agricultural Economics and Information, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, China
- Key Laboratory of Huang-Huai-Hai Smart Agricultural Technology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Zhengzhou, China
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- Institute of Agricultural Economics and Information, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, China
- Key Laboratory of Huang-Huai-Hai Smart Agricultural Technology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Zhengzhou, China
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- Institute of Agricultural Economics and Information, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, China
- Key Laboratory of Huang-Huai-Hai Smart Agricultural Technology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Zhengzhou, China
- Guoqiang Li,
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- Institute of Agricultural Economics and Information, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, China
- Key Laboratory of Huang-Huai-Hai Smart Agricultural Technology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Zhengzhou, China
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Zhou Q, Huang Z, Zheng S, Jiao L, Wang L, Wang R. A wheat spike detection method based on Transformer. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:1023924. [PMID: 36340370 PMCID: PMC9630921 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.1023924] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2022] [Accepted: 09/22/2022] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Wheat spike detection has important research significance for production estimation and crop field management. With the development of deep learning-based algorithms, researchers tend to solve the detection task by convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, traditional CNNs equip with the inductive bias of locality and scale-invariance, which makes it hard to extract global and long-range dependency. In this paper, we propose a Transformer-based network named Multi-Window Swin Transformer (MW-Swin Transformer). Technically, MW-Swin Transformer introduces the ability of feature pyramid network to extract multi-scale features and inherits the characteristic of Swin Transformer that performs self-attention mechanism by window strategy. Moreover, bounding box regression is a crucial step in detection. We propose a Wheat Intersection over Union loss by incorporating the Euclidean distance, area overlapping, and aspect ratio, thereby leading to better detection accuracy. We merge the proposed network and regression loss into a popular detection architecture, fully convolutional one-stage object detection, and name the unified model WheatFormer. Finally, we construct a wheat spike detection dataset (WSD-2022) to evaluate the performance of the proposed methods. The experimental results show that the proposed network outperforms those state-of-the-art algorithms with 0.459 mAP (mean average precision) and 0.918 AP50. It has been proved that our Transformer-based method is effective to handle wheat spike detection under complex field conditions.
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- Qiong Zhou
- Institute of Intelligent Machines, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, China
- Science Island Branch, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
- College of Information and Computer, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China
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- Institute of Intelligent Machines, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, China
- Science Island Branch, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- Institute of Intelligent Machines, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, China
- Department of Information Engineering Southwest, University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, China
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- Institute of Intelligent Machines, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, China
- School of Internet, Anhui University, Hefei, China
- *Correspondence: Rujing Wang, ; Liusan Wang, ; Lin Jiao,
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- Institute of Intelligent Machines, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, China
- *Correspondence: Rujing Wang, ; Liusan Wang, ; Lin Jiao,
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- Institute of Intelligent Machines, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, China
- Science Island Branch, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
- *Correspondence: Rujing Wang, ; Liusan Wang, ; Lin Jiao,
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Xiao Q, Bai X, Zhang C, He Y. Advanced high-throughput plant phenotyping techniques for genome-wide association studies: A review. J Adv Res 2022; 35:215-230. [PMID: 35003802 PMCID: PMC8721248 DOI: 10.1016/j.jare.2021.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2020] [Revised: 05/05/2021] [Accepted: 05/09/2021] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Linking phenotypes and genotypes to identify genetic architectures that regulate important traits is crucial for plant breeding and the development of plant genomics. In recent years, genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have been applied extensively to interpret relationships between genes and traits. Successful GWAS application requires comprehensive genomic and phenotypic data from large populations. Although multiple high-throughput DNA sequencing approaches are available for the generation of genomics data, the capacity to generate high-quality phenotypic data is lagging far behind. Traditional methods for plant phenotyping mostly rely on manual measurements, which are laborious, inaccurate, and time-consuming, greatly impairing the acquisition of phenotypic data from large populations. In contrast, high-throughput phenotyping has unique advantages, facilitating rapid, non-destructive, and high-throughput detection, and, in turn, addressing the shortcomings of traditional methods. Aim of Review: This review summarizes the current status with regard to the integration of high-throughput phenotyping and GWAS in plants, in addition to discussing the inherent challenges and future prospects. Key Scientific Concepts of Review: High-throughput phenotyping, which facilitates non-contact and dynamic measurements, has the potential to offer high-quality trait data for GWAS and, in turn, to enhance the unraveling of genetic structures of complex plant traits. In conclusion, high-throughput phenotyping integration with GWAS could facilitate the revealing of coding information in plant genomes.
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- Qinlin Xiao
- College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
- Key Laboratory of Spectroscopy Sensing, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
- Key Laboratory of Spectroscopy Sensing, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- School of Information Engineering, Huzhou University, Huzhou 313000, China
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- College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
- Key Laboratory of Spectroscopy Sensing, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Hangzhou 310058, China
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Zhang J, Min A, Steffenson BJ, Su WH, Hirsch CD, Anderson J, Wei J, Ma Q, Yang C. Wheat-Net: An Automatic Dense Wheat Spike Segmentation Method Based on an Optimized Hybrid Task Cascade Model. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:834938. [PMID: 35222491 PMCID: PMC8866238 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.834938] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2021] [Accepted: 01/18/2022] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Precise segmentation of wheat spikes from a complex background is necessary for obtaining image-based phenotypic information of wheat traits such as yield estimation and spike morphology. A new instance segmentation method based on a Hybrid Task Cascade model was proposed to solve the wheat spike detection problem with improved detection results. In this study, wheat images were collected from fields where the environment varied both spatially and temporally. Res2Net50 was adopted as a backbone network, combined with multi-scale training, deformable convolutional networks, and Generic ROI Extractor for rich feature learning. The proposed methods were trained and validated, and the average precision (AP) obtained for the bounding box and mask was 0.904 and 0.907, respectively, and the accuracy for wheat spike counting was 99.29%. Comprehensive empirical analyses revealed that our method (Wheat-Net) performed well on challenging field-based datasets with mixed qualities, particularly those with various backgrounds and wheat spike adjacence/occlusion. These results provide evidence for dense wheat spike detection capabilities with masking, which is useful for not only wheat yield estimation but also spike morphology assessments.
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- Jiajing Zhang
- College of Information and Electrical Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
- The State Key Laboratory of Management and Control for Complex Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, United States
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, United States
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- College of Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, United States
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- Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, United States
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- College of Information and Electrical Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- College of Information and Electrical Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
- *Correspondence: Qin Ma,
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- Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, United States
- Ce Yang,
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Ullah S, Henke M, Narisetti N, Panzarová K, Trtílek M, Hejatko J, Gladilin E. Towards Automated Analysis of Grain Spikes in Greenhouse Images Using Neural Network Approaches: A Comparative Investigation of Six Methods. SENSORS 2021; 21:s21227441. [PMID: 34833515 PMCID: PMC8621358 DOI: 10.3390/s21227441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2021] [Revised: 10/24/2021] [Accepted: 10/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Automated analysis of small and optically variable plant organs, such as grain spikes, is highly demanded in quantitative plant science and breeding. Previous works primarily focused on the detection of prominently visible spikes emerging on the top of the grain plants growing in field conditions. However, accurate and automated analysis of all fully and partially visible spikes in greenhouse images renders a more challenging task, which was rarely addressed in the past. A particular difficulty for image analysis is represented by leaf-covered, occluded but also matured spikes of bushy crop cultivars that can hardly be differentiated from the remaining plant biomass. To address the challenge of automated analysis of arbitrary spike phenotypes in different grain crops and optical setups, here, we performed a comparative investigation of six neural network methods for pattern detection and segmentation in RGB images, including five deep and one shallow neural network. Our experimental results demonstrate that advanced deep learning methods show superior performance, achieving over 90% accuracy by detection and segmentation of spikes in wheat, barley and rye images. However, spike detection in new crop phenotypes can be performed more accurately than segmentation. Furthermore, the detection and segmentation of matured, partially visible and occluded spikes, for which phenotypes substantially deviate from the training set of regular spikes, still represent a challenge to neural network models trained on a limited set of a few hundreds of manually labeled ground truth images. Limitations and further potential improvements of the presented algorithmic frameworks for spike image analysis are discussed. Besides theoretical and experimental investigations, we provide a GUI-based tool (SpikeApp), which shows the application of pre-trained neural networks to fully automate spike detection, segmentation and phenotyping in images of greenhouse-grown plants.
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- Sajid Ullah
- Plant Sciences Core Facility, CEITEC—Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, 60200 Brno, Czech Republic; (M.H.); (J.H.)
- Correspondence: (S.U.); (E.G.)
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- Plant Sciences Core Facility, CEITEC—Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, 60200 Brno, Czech Republic; (M.H.); (J.H.)
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), 06466 Gatersleben, Germany;
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- PSI (Photon Systems Instruments), spol. s r.o., 66424 Drasov, Czech Republic; (K.P.); (M.T.)
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- PSI (Photon Systems Instruments), spol. s r.o., 66424 Drasov, Czech Republic; (K.P.); (M.T.)
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- Plant Sciences Core Facility, CEITEC—Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, 60200 Brno, Czech Republic; (M.H.); (J.H.)
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), 06466 Gatersleben, Germany;
- Correspondence: (S.U.); (E.G.)
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Deep-learning-based object detection algorithms have significantly improved the performance of wheat spike detection. However, UAV images crowned with small-sized, highly dense, and overlapping spikes cause the accuracy to decrease for detection. This paper proposes an improved YOLOv5 (You Look Only Once)-based method to detect wheat spikes accurately in UAV images and solve spike error detection and miss detection caused by occlusion conditions. The proposed method introduces data cleaning and data augmentation to improve the generalization ability of the detection network. The network is rebuilt by adding a microscale detection layer, setting prior anchor boxes, and adapting the confidence loss function of the detection layer based on the IoU (Intersection over Union). These refinements improve the feature extraction for small-sized wheat spikes and lead to better detection accuracy. With the confidence weights, the detection boxes in multiresolution images are fused to increase the accuracy under occlusion conditions. The result shows that the proposed method is better than the existing object detection algorithms, such as Faster RCNN, Single Shot MultiBox Detector (SSD), RetinaNet, and standard YOLOv5. The average accuracy (AP) of wheat spike detection in UAV images is 94.1%, which is 10.8% higher than the standard YOLOv5. Thus, the proposed method is a practical way to handle the spike detection in complex field scenarios and provide technical references for field-level wheat phenotype monitoring.
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Tassel counts provide valuable information related to flowering and yield prediction in maize, but are expensive and time-consuming to acquire via traditional manual approaches. High-resolution RGB imagery acquired by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), coupled with advanced machine learning approaches, including deep learning (DL), provides a new capability for monitoring flowering. In this article, three state-of-the-art DL techniques, CenterNet based on point annotation, task-aware spatial disentanglement (TSD), and detecting objects with recursive feature pyramids and switchable atrous convolution (DetectoRS) based on bounding box annotation, are modified to improve their performance for this application and evaluated for tassel detection relative to Tasselnetv2+. The dataset for the experiments is comprised of RGB images of maize tassels from plant breeding experiments, which vary in size, complexity, and overlap. Results show that the point annotations are more accurate and simpler to acquire than the bounding boxes, and bounding box-based approaches are more sensitive to the size of the bounding boxes and background than point-based approaches. Overall, CenterNet has high accuracy in comparison to the other techniques, but DetectoRS can better detect early-stage tassels. The results for these experiments were more robust than Tasselnetv2+, which is sensitive to the number of tassels in the image.
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Wheat Ear Recognition Based on RetinaNet and Transfer Learning. SENSORS 2021; 21:s21144845. [PMID: 34300585 PMCID: PMC8309814 DOI: 10.3390/s21144845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2021] [Revised: 07/07/2021] [Accepted: 07/12/2021] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The number of wheat ears is an essential indicator for wheat production and yield estimation, but accurately obtaining wheat ears requires expensive manual cost and labor time. Meanwhile, the characteristics of wheat ears provide less information, and the color is consistent with the background, which can be challenging to obtain the number of wheat ears required. In this paper, the performance of Faster regions with convolutional neural networks (Faster R-CNN) and RetinaNet to predict the number of wheat ears for wheat at different growth stages under different conditions is investigated. The results show that using the Global WHEAT dataset for recognition, the RetinaNet method, and the Faster R-CNN method achieve an average accuracy of 0.82 and 0.72, with the RetinaNet method obtaining the highest recognition accuracy. Secondly, using the collected image data for recognition, the R2 of RetinaNet and Faster R-CNN after transfer learning is 0.9722 and 0.8702, respectively, indicating that the recognition accuracy of the RetinaNet method is higher on different data sets. We also tested wheat ears at both the filling and maturity stages; our proposed method has proven to be very robust (the R2 is above 90). This study provides technical support and a reference for automatic wheat ear recognition and yield estimation.
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Hein NT, Ciampitti IA, Jagadish SVK. Bottlenecks and opportunities in field-based high-throughput phenotyping for heat and drought stress. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2021; 72:5102-5116. [PMID: 33474563 PMCID: PMC8272563 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erab021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2020] [Accepted: 01/18/2021] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Flowering and grain-filling stages are highly sensitive to heat and drought stress exposure, leading to significant loss in crop yields. Therefore, phenotyping to enhance resilience to these abiotic stresses is critical for sustaining genetic gains in crop improvement programs. However, traditional methods for screening traits related to these stresses are slow, laborious, and often expensive. Remote sensing provides opportunities to introduce low-cost, less biased, high-throughput phenotyping methods to capture large genetic diversity to facilitate enhancement of stress resilience in crops. This review focuses on four key physiological traits and processes that are critical in understanding crop responses to drought and heat stress during reproductive and grain-filling periods. Specifically, these traits include: (i) time of day of flowering, to escape these stresses during flowering; (ii) optimizing photosynthetic efficiency; (iii) storage and translocation of water-soluble carbohydrates; and (iv) yield and yield components to provide in-season yield estimates. Moreover, we provide an overview of current advances in remote sensing in capturing these traits, and discuss the limitations with existing technology as well as future direction of research to develop high-throughput phenotyping approaches. In the future, phenotyping these complex traits will require sensor advancement, high-quality imagery combined with machine learning methods, and efforts in transdisciplinary science to foster integration across disciplines.
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- Nathan T Hein
- Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA
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Parts-per-Object Count in Agricultural Images: Solving Phenotyping Problems via a Single Deep Neural Network. REMOTE SENSING 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/rs13132496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Solving many phenotyping problems involves not only automatic detection of objects in an image, but also counting the number of parts per object. We propose a solution in the form of a single deep network, tested for three agricultural datasets pertaining to bananas-per-bunch, spikelets-per-wheat-spike, and berries-per-grape-cluster. The suggested network incorporates object detection, object resizing, and part counting as modules in a single deep network, with several variants tested. The detection module is based on a Retina-Net architecture, whereas for the counting modules, two different architectures are examined: the first based on direct regression of the predicted count, and the other on explicit parts detection and counting. The results are promising, with the mean relative deviation between estimated and visible part count in the range of 9.2% to 11.5%. Further inference of count-based yield related statistics is considered. For banana bunches, the actual banana count (including occluded bananas) is inferred from the count of visible bananas. For spikelets-per-wheat-spike, robust estimation methods are employed to get the average spikelet count across the field, which is an effective yield estimator.
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Wang Y, Qin Y, Cui J. Occlusion Robust Wheat Ear Counting Algorithm Based on Deep Learning. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 12:645899. [PMID: 34177976 PMCID: PMC8226325 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.645899] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2020] [Accepted: 05/19/2021] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Counting the number of wheat ears in images under natural light is an important way to evaluate the crop yield, thus, it is of great significance to modern intelligent agriculture. However, the distribution of wheat ears is dense, so the occlusion and overlap problem appears in almost every wheat image. It is difficult for traditional image processing methods to solve occlusion problem due to the deficiency of high-level semantic features, while existing deep learning based counting methods did not solve the occlusion efficiently. This article proposes an improved EfficientDet-D0 object detection model for wheat ear counting, and focuses on solving occlusion. First, the transfer learning method is employed in the pre-training of the model backbone network to extract the high-level semantic features of wheat ears. Secondly, an image augmentation method Random-Cutout is proposed, in which some rectangles are selected and erased according to the number and size of the wheat ears in the images to simulate occlusion in real wheat images. Finally, convolutional block attention module (CBAM) is adopted into the EfficientDet-D0 model after the backbone, which makes the model refine the features, pay more attention to the wheat ears and suppress other useless background information. Extensive experiments are done by feeding the features to detection layer, showing that the counting accuracy of the improved EfficientDet-D0 model reaches 94%, which is about 2% higher than the original model, and false detection rate is 5.8%, which is the lowest among comparative methods.
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- School of Information Science and Technology, North China University of Technology, Beijing, China
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Ghahremani M, Williams K, Corke FMK, Tiddeman B, Liu Y, Doonan JH. Deep Segmentation of Point Clouds of Wheat. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 12:608732. [PMID: 33841454 PMCID: PMC8025700 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.608732] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2020] [Accepted: 02/24/2021] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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The 3D analysis of plants has become increasingly effective in modeling the relative structure of organs and other traits of interest. In this paper, we introduce a novel pattern-based deep neural network, Pattern-Net, for segmentation of point clouds of wheat. This study is the first to segment the point clouds of wheat into defined organs and to analyse their traits directly in 3D space. Point clouds have no regular grid and thus their segmentation is challenging. Pattern-Net creates a dynamic link among neighbors to seek stable patterns from a 3D point set across several levels of abstraction using the K-nearest neighbor algorithm. To this end, different layers are connected to each other to create complex patterns from the simple ones, strengthen dynamic link propagation, alleviate the vanishing-gradient problem, encourage link reuse and substantially reduce the number of parameters. The proposed deep network is capable of analysing and decomposing unstructured complex point clouds into semantically meaningful parts. Experiments on a wheat dataset verify the effectiveness of our approach for segmentation of wheat in 3D space.
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- Morteza Ghahremani
- National Plant Phenomics Centre, Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
- Department of Computer Science, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
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- National Plant Phenomics Centre, Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
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- National Plant Phenomics Centre, Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
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- Department of Computer Science, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
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- Department of Computer Science, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, United Kingdom
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- National Plant Phenomics Centre, Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
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