Pub Date : 2024-09-06DOI: 10.1109/TAFE.2024.3444730
Moteaal Asadi Shirzi;Mehrdad R. Kermani
In this article, we propose a new algorithm to improve plant recognition through the use of feature descriptors. The accurate results from this identification method are essential for enabling autonomous tasks, such as stem-stake coupling, in precision agriculture. The proposed method divides the input seedling color image into subimages within the International Commission on Illumination, for three color axes, L for lightness, A for the green-red component, and B for the blue-yellow component, color space and extracts seven key feature descriptors for each subimage. It then uses feature descriptors to create a matrix, which is employed to train an artificial neural network to determine optimized cutoff values. This network suggests cutoff values for a multilevel threshold segmentation for plant recognition. The method provides robust and real-time adaptive segmentation adaptable to various seedlings, backgrounds, and lighting conditions. By enabling accurate segmentation of the plant, morphological image processing can more effectively eliminate leaves to locate the seedling stem. This methodology automates image analysis in seedling propagation facilities and greenhouses and enables a wide range of precision agricultural tasks.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-05DOI: 10.1109/TAFE.2024.3445119
Baofeng Ji;Haoyu Li;Xin Jin;Ji Zhang;Fazhan Tao;Peng Li;Jianhua Wang;Huitao Fan
Timely detection and prevention of tomato leaf diseases are crucial for improving tomato yields. To address the issue of low efficiency in detecting tomato leaf diseases, this article proposes a lightweight tomato leaf disease recognition method. First, enhanced intersection over union is introduced in the you only look once v8 (YOLOv8) model to replace the complete intersection over union loss function, enhancing the accuracy of bounding box localization. To solve the problem of fixed sample shapes and square convolution kernels not adapting well to different targets, lightweight alterable Kernel convolution (AKConv) is introduced, providing arbitrary parameters and shapes for the convolution kernel. Inspired by the lightweight characteristics of AKConv, the C2f module is improved by integrating AKConv to reduce floating-point operations and computational complexity during the convolution process. Second, as it is not feasible to construct a lightweight model with a large depth to achieve sufficient accuracy, a new lightweight convolution technique is introduced. GSConv, combining the GS bottleneck and the efficient cross stage partial block (VoV-GSCSP), replaces the feature fusion layer to achieve lightweight feature enrichment. To test and train the model, a tomato leaf disease dataset was constructed. The improved model demonstrated higher accuracy and fewer parameters on the tomato leaf disease dataset. The improved model achieved an mean average precision 50 (mAP50) of 94.9 $%$