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    Multispecies Fruit Flower Detection Using a Refined Semantic Segmentation Network

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    In fruit production, critical crop management decisions are guided by bloom intensity, i.e., the number of flowers present in an orchard. Despite its importance, bloom intensity is still typically estimated by means of human visual inspection. Existing automated computer vision systems for flower identification are based on hand-engineered techniques that work only under specific conditions and with limited performance. This letter proposes an automated technique for flower identification that is robust to uncontrolled environments and applicable to different flower species. Our method relies on an end-to-end residual convolutional neural network (CNN) that represents the state-of-the-art in semantic segmentation. To enhance its sensitivity to flowers, we fine-tune this network using a single dataset of apple flower images. Since CNNs tend to produce coarse segmentations, we employ a refinement method to better distinguish between individual flower instances. Without any preprocessing or dataset-specific training, experimental results on images of apple, peach, and pear flowers, acquired under different conditions demonstrate the robustness and broad applicability of our method

    PLANT CLASSIFICATION BASED ON LEAF EDGES AND LEAF MORPHOLOGICAL VEINS USING WAVELET CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK

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    The leaf is one of the plant organs, contains chlorophyll, and functions as a catcher of energy from sunlight which is used for photosynthesis. Perfect leaves are composed of three parts, namely midrib, stalk, and leaf blade. The way to identify the type of plant is to look at the shape of the leaf edges. The shape, color, and texture of a plant's leaf margins may influence its leaf veins, which in this vein morphology carry information useful for plant classification when shape, color, and texture are not noticeable. Humans, on the other hand, may fail to recognize this feature because they prefer to see plants solely based on leaf form rather than leaf margins and veins. This research uses the Wavelet method to denoise existing images in the dataset and the Convolutional Neural Network classifies through images. The results obtained using the Wavelet Convolutional Neural Network method are equal to 97.13%.&nbsp

    Plant Classification based on Leaves using Artificial Neural Network

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    Manual methods to examine leaf for plant classification can be tedious, therefore, automation is desired. Existing methods try distinctive approaches to accomplish this task. Nowadays, Convolution Neural Networks (CNN) are widely used for such application which achieves higher accuracy. However, CNN's are computationally expensive and require extensive dataset for training. Other existing methods are far less resource expensive but they also have their shortcomings for example, some features cannot be processed accurately with automation, some necessary differentiators are left out. To overcome this, we have proposed a simple Artificial Neural Network (ANN) for automatic classification of plants based on their leaf features. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm able to achieve an accuracy of 96% by incorporating only a single hidden layer of ANN. Hence, our approach is fairly computationally efficient compared to existing CNN based method

    A Review on Detection of Medical Plant Images

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    Both human and non-human life on Earth depends heavily on plants. The natural cycle is most significantly influenced by plants. Because of the sophistication of recent plant discoveries and the computerization of plants, plant identification is particularly challenging in biology and agriculture. There are a variety of reasons why automatic plant classification systems must be put into place, including instruction, resource evaluation, and environmental protection. It is thought that the leaves of medicinal plants are what distinguishes them. It is an interesting goal to identify the species of plant automatically using the photo identity of their leaves because taxonomists are undertrained and biodiversity is quickly vanishing in the current environment. Due to the need for mass production, these plants must be identified immediately. The physical and emotional health of people must be taken into consideration when developing drugs. To important processing of medical herbs is to identify and classify. Since there aren't many specialists in this field, it might be difficult to correctly identify and categorize medicinal plants. Therefore, a fully automated approach is optimal for identifying medicinal plants. The numerous means for categorizing medicinal plants that take into interpretation based on the silhouette and roughness of a plant's leaf are briefly précised in this article

    Plants Detection, Localization and Discrimination using 3D Machine Vision for Robotic Intra-row Weed Control

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    Weed management is vitally important in crop production systems. However, conventional herbicide-based weed control can lead to negative environmental impacts. Manual weed control is laborious and impractical for large scale production. Robotic weeding offers a possibility of controlling weeds precisely, particularly for weeds growing close to or within crop rows. The fusion of two-dimensional textural images and three-dimensional spatial images to recognize and localize crop plants at different growth stages were investigated. Images of different crop plants at different growth stages with weeds were acquired. Feature extraction algorithms were developed, and different features were extracted and used to train plant and background classifiers, which also addressed the problems of canopy occlusion and leaf damage. Then, the efficacy and accuracy of the proposed methods in classification were demonstrated by experiments. Currently, the algorithms were only developed and tested for broccoli and lettuce. For broccoli plants, the crop plants detection true positive rate was 93.1%, and the false discover rate was 1.1%, with the average crop-plant-localization error of 15.9 mm. For lettuce plants, the crop plants detection true positive rate was 92.3%, and the false discover rate was 4.0%, with the average crop-plant-localization error of 8.5 mm. The results have shown that 3D imaging based plant recognition algorithms are effective and reliable for crop/weed differentiation
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