Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis ›› 2020, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (12): 2244-2252.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.2020.12.16

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Estimation method of wheat yield based on convolution neural network

BAO Liea,b(), WANG Mantaoa,b,*(), LIU Jiangchuana,b, WEN Boa,b, MING Yuea,b   

  1. a. College of Information Engineering, Ya’an 625000, China
    b. Key Laboratory of Agricultural Information Engineering of Sichuan Province,Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an 625000, China
  • Received:2020-07-21 Online:2020-12-25 Published:2020-12-25
  • Contact: WANG Mantao

Abstract:

Wheat yield is one of the important indices to evaluate agricultural productivity. In order to solve the problem of wheat yield prediction, convolution neural network was applied. It could provide reference for the estimation of agricultural productivity and guide the decision-making of agricultural production management. We constructed the wheat dataset from the images which were collected by unmanned aerial vehicle in Xinxiang and Luohe of Henan Province, and divided them into positive samples (wheat) and negative samples (leaf and background). The convolutional neural network recognition model was designed for normal physiological morphology and growth environment of wheat, and the image pyramid was used to construct multi-scale sliding windows. Finally, Non-maximum suppression (NMS) was used to remove the object frame with high overlap rate to realize counting of wheat ears per unit area. We randomly assigned 100 different wheat images to test. Compared with manual counting result, the accuracy rate reached 97.30%, the missed detection rate was 0.34%, the wrong detection rate was 2.36%, and the error rate was 2.70%. The experimental results showed that this method could overcome many kinds of noise interference in the environment, and could count wheat ear and estimate the yield of wheat accurately.

Key words: image processing, deep learning, convolutional neural network, pyramid of images, yield estimation

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