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    Automatic scoring of postures in grouped pigs using depth image and CNN-SVM

    Xu J.Zhou S.Xu A.Ye J....
    11页
    查看更多>>摘要:? 2022 Elsevier B.V.Animal posture is a manifestation of animal behavior, and an animal's behavior provides information about their health, welfare, and living environment. In recent years, machine vision and machine learning technologies have been widely used to detect individual or group behavior of pigs. The purpose of this study is to use machine vision and deep learning technologies to recognize and score multiple postures (standing, sitting, sternal recumbency, ventral recumbency and lateral recumbency) of pigs under commercial conditions based on depth images. In this study, the Azure Kinect DK depth camera with a top view was used to obtain the depth image of pigs, and the target pig image was obtained by GrabCut image segmentation and watershed segmentation of target object calibration. Then, based on the characteristics of the image, the convex hull, boundary, and the depth distance of the shoulder and the hip were obtained. The ratio of the convex hull perimeter to the boundary and the ratio of the convex hull area to the boundary, as well as the depth distance of the shoulder and the hip, and the depth distance ratio of the shoulder to the hip were obtained as the input of the Convolutional Neural Network-Support Vector Machine (CNN-SVM) classification model, and the model was trained and tested. In various classifier detection experiments, the performance of our pig posture classifier for standing posture and lateral recumbency posture was better, with the area under the receiver operating characteristic (AUC) values being 0.9969 and 0.9967, respectively. However, the performance of sitting posture, sternal recumbency posture and ventral recumbency posture classifier was slightly worse but still had good performance: AUC values were 0.9790, 0.9355 and 0.9795, respectively. The model in this article was used to detect the average postures of pigs in one day (taking the average for eight consecutive days), and it was found that the proportion of lying postures was higher than other postures (lying postures were 72%, standing postures were 20%, and sitting postures were 8%). The proportion of standing postures in the daytime was higher than that in the evening, and lying posture was the opposite. The proportion of the three lying postures also changes over time. This study compared the difference of posture recognition accuracy between the model in this paper (CNN-SVM), SVM and CNN; using the same training data and experimental data, the accuracy of posture recognition of the three models was 94.6368%, 92.2175% and 90.5396%, respectively. Therefore, the recognition accuracy of the model in this paper was improved greatly compared with CNN and SVM.

    Biometric identification of sheep via a machine-vision system

    Hitelman A.Godo A.Berenstein R.Lepar J....
    8页
    查看更多>>摘要:? 2022 Elsevier B.V.This paper describes a sheep biometric identification system based on facial images. A machine vision system and deep learning model were developed and applied for animal identification. The system included two 8-MegaPixels cameras installed in a controlled water trough adapted to work with NVIDIA Jetson Nano-embedded system-on-module (SoM). Data from 81 Assaf breed sheep, aged two to three months, from two different groups of sheep, were collected over a period of two weeks. The biometric identification model included two steps: face detection and classification. In order to locate and localize the sheep's face in an image, the Faster R-CNN deep learning object detection algorithm was applied. The detected face was provided as input to seven different classification models. Different transfer learning methods were examined. The best performance was obtained using a ResNet50V2 model with the state-of-art ArcFace loss function. The identification system resulted in average accuracies of 95% for the two groups tested. When applying transfer learning methods, average identification accuracies improved to 97% in both groups, and the training process was accomplished in half the time. The newly developed system proves the feasibility of individual biometric identification of sheep on commercial farms.

    Automated workflow analysis in vegetable grafting using an Ultra-Wide Band based real-time indoor location tracking system

    Chowdhury B.D.B.Son Y.-J.Kubota C.Tronstad R....
    14页
    查看更多>>摘要:? 2022 Elsevier B.V.Traditional workflow analysis requires intensive manual processes to extract meaningful information from raw sensory data. A novel framework for workflow analysis is developed based on a real-time indoor location tracking system utilizing Ultra-Wide Band technology. The proposed framework is applied to identify worker and task associations in a labor-intensive horticultural plant production process for grafted vegetable seedlings, based on location data. It involves binary segmentation of different distance measures calculated from location data to detect the plant tray's movements and worker association in the vegetable grafting operation. An iterative overlap time removal algorithm is then implemented to ensure that no worker is assigned to overlapping processes, and no task is processed by multiple workers simultaneously. Key workflow metrices such as flow time, processing time, and waiting times are automatically calculated. Automatically generated Gantt charts and bar plots provide valuable insights into the workflow for management and help them identify improvement opportunities. Validation of results with video data show that the proposed workflow analysis is 90.5% accurate.

    Developing machine learning models with multi-source environmental data to predict wheat yield in China

    Li L.Wang Y.Wang B.Zhang Y....
    12页
    查看更多>>摘要:? 2022Crop yield is controlled by different environmental factors. Multi-source data for site-specific soils, climates, and remotely sensed vegetation indices are essential for yield prediction. Algorithms of data-model fusion for crop growth monitoring and yield prediction are complicated and need to be optimized to deal with model uncertainty. This study integrated multi-source environmental variables (e.g., satellite-based vegetation indices, climate data, and soil properties) into random forest (RF) and support vector machine (SVM) models for wheat yield prediction in China. The performance of both RF and SVM models was investigated using different types of vegetation indices associated with other predictors. Relative importance and partial dependence analyses were used to identify the main predictors and their relationships with wheat yield. We found that using remotely sensed vegetation indices improved our model precision, and that near-infrared reflectance of terrestrial vegetation (NIRv) was slightly better than normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and enhanced vegetation index (EVI) in predicting yield. NIRv was better in detecting climate stress on crops, and could capture more information regarding crop growth and yield formation. Compared with the SVM model, the RF model with NIRv and other covariates had better performance in wheat yield prediction, with R2 and RMSE being 0.74 and 758 kg/ha respectively. We also found that NIRv from jointing to heading was the most important predictor in determining yield, followed by solar radiation (especially during tillering–heading), relative humidity (during planting–tillering), soil organic carbon, and wind speed (throughout the growing season). In addition, wheat yield exhibited threshold-like responses to most factors based on our RF model. These threshold values can help to better understand how different environmental factors limit wheat yield, which will provide useful information for climate-adaptive crop management. Our findings demonstrated the potential of using NIRv for yield prediction. This approach is broadly applicable to other regions globally using publicly available data.

    The development of on-line surface defect detection system for jujubes based on hyperspectral images

    Thien Pham Q.Liou N.-S.
    10页
    查看更多>>摘要:? 2022 Elsevier B.V.This paper presents the development of an on-line surface defect system using hyperspectral images for jujubes. A push-broom hyperspectral system was built for collecting hyperspectral image data and detecting skin defects of jujube online. Hyperspectral images with an effective wavelength range of 468–950 nm were obtained for jujubes with normal surface or common skin defect types (i.e., russeting, decay, white fungus, black fungus and crack). Support vector machine (SVM) and artificial neural networks (ANN) models were used to classify surface defects of jujubes. The classification accuracies, with the use of full wavelength range, of ANN and SVM models for jujube skin defects are 96.5% and 96.3% respectively. The times required for processing one jujube face are about 25 and 320 s for ANN and SVM models respectively. To reduce the computation time of online classification tasks, spectral bands were selected from a wavelength range of 468–760 nm with equal band intervals or by the principal component analysis (PCA) method. Experimental results showed that the accuracy of SVM and ANN models using 14 bands (469, 491, 513, 535, 558, 580, 602, 624, 646, 668, 691, 713, 735 and 757 nm), selected by equal wavelength intervals, were 94.4% and 95% respectively. And the accuracies of ANN and SVM models with 14 bands (470, 493, 534, 555, 590, 623, 632, 654, 672, 674, 683, 696, 707 and 747) selected by PCA are 95% and 94.6% respectively. The classification time, with the use of 14 bands, of ANN and SVM models for jujube skin defects reduced to 16.6 and 30 s respectively. The online line scanning and classification hyperspectral imaging system can be used for surface defect detection of other fruits.

    Nondestructive estimation of beef carcass yield using digital image analysis

    Seo Y.Lim J.Mo C.Cho S....
    13页
    查看更多>>摘要:? 2022 Elsevier B.V.Assessment of beef carcass quality and yield is commonly done in a hands-on manner by experts who undertake lengthy tasks to quantify the yield and assign respective grades for every carcass on the slaughter line. Recently, there has been an outburst of technologies to speed up and support the expert's carcass yield assessment. However, due to the complexity of the problem, most of these technologies have low performances. The goal of this research is to develop a novel image analysis system for prediction of beef yield and quality with acceptable accuracy. This study aims to combine image processing and statistical modelling to predict key beef carcass yield parameters. Using image data from 140 beef carcass samples, we were able to develop models that achieved good prediction performance for yield parameters like lean meat percentage (with R2 = 0.89, RMSE = 1.99%), and other parameters (with R2 > 0.86) using a few selected features from image analysis and multiple linear regression. Given the current industrial trend in beef carcass yield grading, the results we achieved could potentially serve as a basis for online beef carcass grading.

    Study of chrysanthemum image phenotype on-line classification based on transfer learning and bilinear convolutional neural network

    Yuan P.Qian S.Zhai Z.Xu H....
    15页
    查看更多>>摘要:? 2022 Elsevier B.V.As one of the largest families of flowering plants, chrysanthemum has a wide variety and variation. There exists small phenotypic differences between classes, leading to the fact that classifying the class of chrysanthemum is a challenging fine-grained image classification problem. The fine-grained image classification task based on deep learning often concerns a large number of parameters and requires a long training time. For tackling these issues, this paper proposes a chrysanthemum image phenotype classification framework based on transfer learning and bilinear Convolutional Neural Network. After pre-processing the images, the symmetric VGG16 network is adopted as a feature extractor. The pre-trained parameters are then transferred to the proposed framework, which is divided into two stages for training the full connection layer and fine tuning all layers respectively. The phenotypic features of chrysanthemum output from the two networks are transposed and multiplied. Last the global features are input into the classification layer for classification. In this paper, a total of eight methods, including other bilinear network models, non-transfer learning and non-bilinear models, are compared with our proposal. The experimental result proves that our proposal can achieve better performance and lower loss, compared with other network models, by reaching at an accuracy rate of 0.9815 and a recall rate of 0.9800.

    Design and testing of a crop growth sensor aboard a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle

    Yuan H.Yang J.Jiang X.Zhu Y....
    12页
    查看更多>>摘要:? 2022 Elsevier B.V.The aim of this study is to overcome disturbance of downwash flow field caused by the low-altitude operation of a multirotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on crop canopies and interference in spectral reflection information of canopies. For this purpose, a crop growth sensor aboard a fixed-wing UAV was developed through flight dynamics simulation analysis of a fixed-wing UAV. This sensor can collect index data on-line and in real-time including: the ratio vegetation index (RVI) of crop leaves, leaf area index (LAI), leaf dry weight (LDW), and leaf nitrogen content (LNC). Flight dynamics simulation analysis of the fixed-wing UAV was conducted by the automatics dynamic analysis of mechanical system (ADAMS) software to obtain the deflection angle of the UAV during flight. According to the flight characteristics and load on the UAV, a ball rolling-type sensor support was designed to ensure that the crop growth sensor is always aimed vertically downwards in-flight. The field test results show that the crop growth sensor aboard the fixed-wing UAV has good dynamic stability and high measurement accuracy. The RVIs measured by the onboard crop growth sensor in the plots and field were fitted with the results measured by a FieldSpec HandHeld 2 spectroradiometer (ASD, Analytical Spectral Device Co., USA). By analysing the fitted results, the coefficients of determination (R2) are 0.763 and 0.833 and the root mean square errors (RMSEs) are 0.16 and 0.17, respectively. By linearly fitting RVIs measured by the UAV with rice growth indices including LAI, LDW, and LNC, the coefficients of determination (R2) are 0.633, 0.581, and 0.528 and RMSEs are 0.18, 0.18, and 0.21, respectively.

    SAMZ-Desert: A Satellite-based agricultural management zoning tool for the desert agriculture region of southern California

    Haghverdi A.Garg A.Sapkota A.
    9页
    查看更多>>摘要:? 2022 The AuthorsA GIS and remote sensing-based decision support tool called SAMZ-Desert was developed for management zones (MZs) delineation of a total of 6852 fields in the Imperial County region of southern California using Landsat-8 NDVI data acquired on 27/4 2018. In addition, a total number of 11 cloud-free images in 2018–2020 were statistically analyzed to determine the extent of within-field NDVI variability and temporal stability of MZs at the regional level. A majority (approx. 37%) of the fields had four zones as an optimum number of zones in the region, which could explain>85% of the within-field NDVI variance. Around 13% (n = 873) of the fields in the region were strongly spatially-clustered in at least half the Landsat-8 cloud-free scenes and can benefit from variable rate technologies. Our results suggest that dynamic zoning over time might be necessary for most of these fields. SAMZ-Desert can be accessed from the Haghverdi Water Management Group website: http://www.ucrwater.com/software-and-tools.html.

    Evaluation of LoRa technology in 433-MHz and 868-MHz for underground to aboveground data transmission

    Moiroux-Arvis L.Cariou C.Chanet J.-P.
    12页
    查看更多>>摘要:? 2022 Elsevier B.V.The development of Wireless Underground Sensor Networks (WUSNs) is currently receiving significant attention to collect data underground all along the year without impacting aboveground activities. Although the opportunities are promising for sectors as agriculture and environment monitoring, the task is particularly challenging as the radio waves are significantly more attenuated in the soil in comparison with in the air. In addition, the communication ranges are highly impacted by some operating and environmental conditions as the soil moisture, its composition and compaction as well as the burial depth of the nodes. In this paper, we developed two sets of nodes operating at 433 MHz and 868 MHz based on the LoRa technology which is the physical layer of the Low Power Wide Area Network LoRaWAN and initially developed for aboveground IoT applications. We successively tested these nodes in real conditions on underground to aboveground (UG2AG) data transmissions and with various operating conditions and radio parameters. First results highlighted the interest of the 868 MHz radio modules tuned at the maximal allowed transmit power in Europe (+14 dBm/25 mW), in comparison with the 433 MHz radio modules (+10 dBm/10 mW). Next results enabled to point out the importance of the inclination of the receiving antenna but also the impact of the burial depth of the emitting node, as well as the interest to place the emitting antenna directly in contact with the soil. The best configuration enabled to reach UG2AG ranges of more than 275 meters long with low depth buried nodes (15 to 30 cm), that clearly enables to envision agriculture and environment monitoring applications based on such radio modules.