3 research outputs found
Towards On-Device AI and Blockchain for 6G enabled Agricultural Supply-chain Management
6G envisions artificial intelligence (AI) powered solutions for enhancing the
quality-of-service (QoS) in the network and to ensure optimal utilization of
resources. In this work, we propose an architecture based on the combination of
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), AI and blockchain for agricultural
supply-chain management with the purpose of ensuring traceability,
transparency, tracking inventories and contracts. We propose a solution to
facilitate on-device AI by generating a roadmap of models with various
resource-accuracy trade-offs. A fully convolutional neural network (FCN) model
is used for biomass estimation through images captured by the UAV. Instead of a
single compressed FCN model for deployment on UAV, we motivate the idea of
iterative pruning to provide multiple task-specific models with various
complexities and accuracy. To alleviate the impact of flight failure in a 6G
enabled dynamic UAV network, the proposed model selection strategy will assist
UAVs to update the model based on the runtime resource requirements.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures, 1 table. Accepted to IEEE Internet of Things
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Toward On-Device AI and Blockchain for 6G-Enabled Agricultural Supply Chain Management
6G envisions artificial intelligence (AI) powered solutions for enhancing the quality of service (QoS) in the network and to ensure optimal utilization of resources. In this work, we propose an architecture based on the combination of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), AI, and blockchain for agricultural supply chain management with the purpose of ensuring traceability and transparency, tracking inventories, and contracts. We propose a solution to facilitate on-device AI by generating a roadmap of models with various resource-accuracy trade-offs. A fully convolutional neural network (FCN) model is used for biomass estimation through images captured by the UAV. Instead of a single compressed FCN model for deployment on UAVs, we motivate the idea of iterative pruning to provide multiple task-specific models with various complexities and accuracy. To alleviate the impact of flight failure in a 6G-enabled dynamic UAV network, the proposed model selection strategy will assist UAVs to update the model based on the runtime resource requirements
Preliminary Classification of Selected Farmland Habitats in Ireland Using Deep Neural Networks
Ireland has a wide variety of farmlands that includes arable fields, grassland, hedgerows, streams, lakes, rivers, and native woodlands. Traditional methods of habitat identification rely on field surveys, which are resource intensive, therefore there is a strong need for digital methods to improve the speed and efficiency of identification and differentiation of farmland habitats. This is challenging because of the large number of subcategories having nearly indistinguishable features within the habitat classes. Heterogeneity among sites within the same habitat class is another problem. Therefore, this research work presents a preliminary technique for accurate farmland classification using stacked ensemble deep convolutional neural networks (DNNs). The proposed approach has been validated on a high-resolution dataset collected using drones. The image samples were manually labelled by the experts in the area before providing them to the DNNs for training purposes. Three pre-trained DNNs customized using the transfer learning approach are used as the base learners. The predicted features derived from the base learners were then used to train a DNN based meta-learner to achieve high classification rates. We analyse the obtained results in terms of convergence rate, confusion matrices, and ROC curves. This is a preliminary work and further research is needed to establish a standard technique