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Automated Counting of Rice Panicle by Applying Deep Learning Model to Images from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Platform

The number of panicles per unit area is a common indicator of rice yield and is of great significance to yield estimation, breeding, and phenotype analysis. Traditional counting methods have various drawbacks, such as long delay times and high subjectivity, and they are easily perturbed by noise. To...

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Autores principales: Zhou, Chengquan, Ye, Hongbao, Hu, Jun, Shi, Xiaoyan, Hua, Shan, Yue, Jibo, Xu, Zhifu, Yang, Guijun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6679257/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31337086
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s19143106
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author Zhou, Chengquan
Ye, Hongbao
Hu, Jun
Shi, Xiaoyan
Hua, Shan
Yue, Jibo
Xu, Zhifu
Yang, Guijun
author_facet Zhou, Chengquan
Ye, Hongbao
Hu, Jun
Shi, Xiaoyan
Hua, Shan
Yue, Jibo
Xu, Zhifu
Yang, Guijun
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description The number of panicles per unit area is a common indicator of rice yield and is of great significance to yield estimation, breeding, and phenotype analysis. Traditional counting methods have various drawbacks, such as long delay times and high subjectivity, and they are easily perturbed by noise. To improve the accuracy of rice detection and counting in the field, we developed and implemented a panicle detection and counting system that is based on improved region-based fully convolutional networks, and we use the system to automate rice-phenotype measurements. The field experiments were conducted in target areas to train and test the system and used a rotor light unmanned aerial vehicle equipped with a high-definition RGB camera to collect images. The trained model achieved a precision of 0.868 on a held-out test set, which demonstrates the feasibility of this approach. The algorithm can deal with the irregular edge of the rice panicle, the significantly different appearance between the different varieties and growing periods, the interference due to color overlapping between panicle and leaves, and the variations in illumination intensity and shading effects in the field. The result is more accurate and efficient recognition of rice-panicles, which facilitates rice breeding. Overall, the approach of training deep learning models on increasingly large and publicly available image datasets presents a clear path toward smartphone-assisted crop disease diagnosis on a global scale.
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spelling pubmed-66792572019-08-19 Automated Counting of Rice Panicle by Applying Deep Learning Model to Images from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Platform Zhou, Chengquan Ye, Hongbao Hu, Jun Shi, Xiaoyan Hua, Shan Yue, Jibo Xu, Zhifu Yang, Guijun Sensors (Basel) Article The number of panicles per unit area is a common indicator of rice yield and is of great significance to yield estimation, breeding, and phenotype analysis. Traditional counting methods have various drawbacks, such as long delay times and high subjectivity, and they are easily perturbed by noise. To improve the accuracy of rice detection and counting in the field, we developed and implemented a panicle detection and counting system that is based on improved region-based fully convolutional networks, and we use the system to automate rice-phenotype measurements. The field experiments were conducted in target areas to train and test the system and used a rotor light unmanned aerial vehicle equipped with a high-definition RGB camera to collect images. The trained model achieved a precision of 0.868 on a held-out test set, which demonstrates the feasibility of this approach. The algorithm can deal with the irregular edge of the rice panicle, the significantly different appearance between the different varieties and growing periods, the interference due to color overlapping between panicle and leaves, and the variations in illumination intensity and shading effects in the field. The result is more accurate and efficient recognition of rice-panicles, which facilitates rice breeding. Overall, the approach of training deep learning models on increasingly large and publicly available image datasets presents a clear path toward smartphone-assisted crop disease diagnosis on a global scale. MDPI 2019-07-13 /pmc/articles/PMC6679257/ /pubmed/31337086 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s19143106 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Shi, Xiaoyan
Hua, Shan
Yue, Jibo
Xu, Zhifu
Yang, Guijun
Automated Counting of Rice Panicle by Applying Deep Learning Model to Images from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Platform
title Automated Counting of Rice Panicle by Applying Deep Learning Model to Images from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Platform
title_full Automated Counting of Rice Panicle by Applying Deep Learning Model to Images from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Platform
title_fullStr Automated Counting of Rice Panicle by Applying Deep Learning Model to Images from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Platform
title_full_unstemmed Automated Counting of Rice Panicle by Applying Deep Learning Model to Images from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Platform
title_short Automated Counting of Rice Panicle by Applying Deep Learning Model to Images from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Platform
title_sort automated counting of rice panicle by applying deep learning model to images from unmanned aerial vehicle platform
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6679257/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31337086
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s19143106
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