Estimation method of wheat yield based on convolution neural network

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.2020.12.16

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 Lie^a^,^b(), WANG Mantao^a^,^b^,^*(), LIU Jiangchuan^a^,^b, WEN Bo^a^,^b, MING Yue^a^,^b

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

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

CLC Number:

S512.1

BAO Lie, WANG Mantao, LIU Jiangchuan, WEN Bo, MING Yue. Estimation method of wheat yield based on convolution neural network[J]. Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis, 2020, 32(12): 2244-2252.

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样本 Samples	总数据集 Total data set	训练集 Training set	验证集 Validation set	测试集 Test set
麦穗Wheat	31 505	27 505	3 000	1 000
叶子与背景	29 987	25 987	3 000	1 000
Leaf and background

样本 Samples	总数据集 Total data set	训练集 Training set	验证集 Validation set	测试集 Test set
麦穗Wheat	31 505	27 505	3 000	1 000
叶子与背景	29 987	25 987	3 000	1 000
Leaf and background

计数方式 Method	总麦穗数量 Total wheat quantity	正确框数 Number of correct boxes	误检数 Number of mistakenly identified boxes	漏检数 Number of missed boxes	误差数 Number of wrong boxes
人工计数Manual	12 530	12 530	0	0	0
Wheat-Net	12 632	12 288	298	43	341

计数方式 Method	总麦穗数量 Total wheat quantity	正确框数 Number of correct boxes	误检数 Number of mistakenly identified boxes	漏检数 Number of missed boxes	误差数 Number of wrong boxes
人工计数Manual	12 530	12 530	0	0	0
Wheat-Net	12 632	12 288	298	43	341

模型 Model	漏检率 Missed detection rate/%	误检率 Wrong detection rate/%	误差率 Error rate/%	准确率 Accuracy rate/%	每张所需时间 Time per sheet/s
VGG-16	2.38	2.65	5.03	94.97	0.433
Wheat-Net	0.34	2.36	2.70	97.30	0.115

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编号 No.	人工统计 Artificial statistics	机器统计 Machine statistics	正确框数 Number of correct boxes	误检数 Number of mistakenly identified boxes	漏检数 Number of missed boxes	误差数 Number of wrong boxes	误差率 Error rate/%
1	134	142	133	9	1	10	7.46
2	121	124	120	4	1	5	4.13
3	132	130	129	1	3	4	3.03
4	127	126	125	1	2	3	2.36
5	118	122	118	4	0	4	3.39
6	117	114	114	0	3	3	2.56
7	92	95	92	3	0	3	3.26
8	107	104	102	2	5	7	6.54
9	107	107	106	1	1	2	1.87
10	133	130	129	1	4	5	3.76

拍摄时间 Shooting time	人工统计 Artificial statistics (total)	机器统计 Machine statistics	正确框数 Number of correct boxes	误检数 Number of mistakenly identified boxes	漏检数 Number of missed boxes	误差数 Number of wrong boxes	误差率 Error rate/%
傍晚Nightfall	7 431	7 631	7 080	221	21	242	3.25
中午Noon	6 984	7 251	6 755	298	31	329	4.71

方法 Method	漏检率 Missed detection rate/%	误检率 Wrong detection rate/%	误差率 Error rate/%	准确率 Accuracy rate/%	每张所需时间 Time per sheet/s
Hourglass Network	5.09	3.54	8.63	91.37	—
YOLOv3	0.90	12.03	12.88	87.12	0.120
Mask R-CNN	1.50	1.50	3.00	97.00	0.940
基于颜色和纹理特征	—	—	3.45	96.55	—
Based on color and texture features
Wheat Net	0.34	2.36	2.70	97.30	0.115

大田编号 Field No.	m/g	t	a/m²	小区预估产量 Estimation yield/kg	人工称量 Artificial weighing/ (kg·m^-2)	预估产量 Algorithm estimation/ (kg·m^-2)	误差 Error/ (kg·m^-2)	误差率 Error rate/%
新乡1号大田 Xinxiang No.1	5.02	141	42 000	29 728.44	0.69	0.71	0.02	2.90
新乡2号大田 Xinxiang No.2	4.28	158	30 000	20 287.20	0.66	0.68	0.02	3.03
漯河1号大田 Luohe No.1	4.93	135	18 000	11 979.90	0.65	0.67	0.02	3.08
漯河2号大田 Luohe No.2	4.37	148	24 000	15 522.24	0.62	0.65	0.03	4.84

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