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    Lightweight silkworm recognition based on Multi-scale feature fusion

    Wen C.Wen J.Li J.Luo Y....
    11页
    查看更多>>摘要:? 2022 Elsevier B.V.Because the YOLOv4 model is unsuitable for the mobile and embedded terminals, YOLOv4′s lightweight MobileNetv3-YOLOv4 network significantly decreases the detection accuracy of dense silkworm targets, and the accuracy loss is too significant. A lightweight YOLOv4 detection algorithm (KM-YOLOv4) improved by multi-scale feature fusion is proposed for the target detection of dense silkworms. The Kmeans algorithm reconstructs anchor boxes suitable for different objects to enhance detection accuracy. By adding multi-scale feature fusion, the improved deep learning separable convolution MobileNetV3 lightweight backbone network replaces the YOLOv4 backbone network, reducing the computational load and model scale of the backbone network and making up for the light part of the depthwise separable convolution Accuracy loss, which improves the detection accuracy of lightweight models. The experimental results with the dense silkworm formation dataset show that the KM-YOLOv4 algorithm significantly reduces the model size by about 74% compared with the YOLOv4 algorithm and improves the detection accuracy by 1.82% with the unimproved MobileNetv3-YOLOv4 algorithm. The model can be better applied to mobile and embedded.

    Reliability provisioning for Fog Nodes in Smart Farming IoT-Fog-Cloud continuum

    Montoya-Munoz A.I.Rendon O.M.C.Silva R.A.C.D.Fonseca N.L.S.D....
    10页
    查看更多>>摘要:? 2022 Elsevier B.V.Reliability is essential in Smart Farming supported by the IoT-Fog-Cloud continuum. Smart Farms’ unprotection may cause significant economic losses and low yields of production. This paper introduces an optimization model for providing reliability and, consequently, service continuity to the IoT-Fog-Cloud continuum-based smart farms. The proposed model allows Smart Farming stakeholders to find the optimal number of Fog Nodes needed to deploy farming services considering the heterogeneity in the fog capabilities, resource demands, redundancy techniques, and reliability requirements. The model was solved using linear programming and evaluated with different demands and protection schemes. Results show that protection schemes guarantee high reliability and reveal that a shared redundancy scheme reduces deployment cost and yet provides reliability. Results also indicate that deployment costs and resources depend on the type of fog-based smart farm services to serve. Moreover, they show that deploying more low-resource hardware can be less expensive for low-reliability demands than deploying with a few high-resource hardware.

    Citrus greening disease recognition algorithm based on classification network using TRL-GAN

    Xiao D.Zeng R.Liu Y.Huang Y....
    13页
    查看更多>>摘要:? 2022 Elsevier B.V.The monitoring and prevention and control of citrus yellow dragon disease is a significant measure to ensure citrus production. If yellow dragon disease appears in citrus orchards, it will cause root rot, fruit deformation and wilting of fruit trees, which will eventually spread to every fruit tree in the whole orchard and cause the death of fruit trees, so it is very meaningful to detect the symptoms of citrus yellow dragon disease early and take appropriate treatment and prevention measures. Pratically, the orchard owner will remove the corresponding fruit trees as soon as they are found to be infected with Huanglong disease, so that it is extremely problematic to obtain a large number of Huanglong disease leaf data. Meanwhile, due to the uncertainty of the pathological trait distribution of citrus yellow dragon disease leaves and the extreme shortage of data, the convolutional neural network model learned in a small number of samples is not capable of generalization. In order to improve the accuracy and generalization of Citrus Greening Disease recognition algorithm, this paper introduces Texture Reconstruction Loss CycleGAN(TRL-GAN) to generate citrus diseased leaf data in realistic scene to increase the richness of samples, and thus proposes the Recognizing Citrus Greening Based on TRL-GAN(RCG TRL-GAN). This algorithm firstly performs background culling by using the instance segmentation network Mask RCNN for realistic scenes citrus yellow dragon disease mottled, zinc deficiency, magnesium deficiency, leaf veins yellowing and other corresponding symptomatic leaves, then introduces texture reconstruction loss improvement CycleGAN as training and migrates the diseased leaf style to ordinary green leaves for data expansion, and finally uses the expanded dataset to train the convolutional neural network. Experimental results on the constructed dataset of 4516 images (762 mottled, 749 Zn deficient, 737 Mg deficient, 721 Vein yellowing, 783 Diachyma yellowing, 764 green leaves) reveal that TRL-GAN has 13.49% and 1.1% improvement in FID and KID, respectively, relative to the original structure CycleGAN, and has been identified by six citrus yellow dragon disease experts and three vision professionals identify that the fake data generated by TRL-GAN have similarity with the leaf pathological characteristics and real data, and also by using T-SNE technique it is observed that the real data have similar distribution with the generated fake data in two-dimensional plane. Meanwhile, the more outstanding accuracy performance in the classification network is ResNeXt101 with 97.45% accuracy, and the average accuracy of RCG TRL-GAN technique in the recognition of classification network is improved 2.76%. The study proves that the RCG TRL-GAN effectively improves the citrus greening disease phenotype data generation and recognition, and can provide method reference for the expansion and recognition of complex plant disease phenotype images.

    DA-Bi-SRU for water quality prediction in smart mariculture

    Chen Z.Hu Z.Xu L.Zhao Y....
    10页
    查看更多>>摘要:? 2022 Elsevier B.V.Due to the open nature of the mariculture environment, water quality factors are susceptible to the cross-influence of biology, physics, chemistry, hydrometeorology and human production activities. The changes of water quality parameters have the characteristics of non-linearity, dynamics, variability and complexity. We propose a novel water quality prediction model for pH, water temperature and dissolved oxygen, namely Double-Attention-Based Bidirectional Simple Recurrent Unit model (DA-Bi-SRU). First, we construct a new huge original dataset collected in time series, consisting of 23,000 sets of data. Then, the collected water quality parameters are sequentially preprocessed. Finally, we introduce a dual attention mechanism module for feature extraction and temporal sequences in the Bi-SRU model. Using the correlations between the water quality parameters and temporal dependencies information, the proposed model can significantly improve the accuracy of long-term prediction of water quality. The experimental results show that our DA-Bi-SRU model has higher prediction accuracy than the methods based on RNN (Recurrent Neural Network), LSTM (Long Short-Term Memory) and Bi-SRU, and the prediction accuracy can reach 93.06%. Therefore, in smart mariculture, farmers can know the changing trend of water quality in advance through our proposed method, and take timely countermeasures before the deterioration of aquaculture ecology.

    Integrated decision support for promoting crop rotation based sustainable agricultural management using geoinformatics and stochastic optimization

    Aggarwal S.Srinivas R.Puppala H.Magner J....
    12页
    查看更多>>摘要:? 2022 Elsevier B.V.Sustainable agricultural management is essential for ensuring food security and economic development. Efficient agricultural land use based on crop rotation practices can deliver greater soil fertility and higher economic potential. We proposed a decision support tool (DST) for preserving land fertility, maximizing agricultural profit, minimizing agricultural pollution, and water usage. The proposed DST links geoinformatics, stochastic pairwise comparison (SPC), and constraint optimization to suggest the suitable crops for growing. To demonstrate the proposed DST, suitability of seven major crops in Muzaffarnagar district in Uttar Pradesh (India), where the footprint of sugarcane cultivable region is nearly 90% is analyzed and the findings are presented. The crops cultivated in the study region and the criteria suitable for their cultivation are identified using the hybrid system approach. The DST primarily encompasses qualitative and quantitative analysis coupled with geospatial analysis. Qualitative analysis guides the decision-maker in finalizing the crucial criteria to be assessed for cultivation, while quantitative analysis uses beta distribution for pairwise comparison to understand the significance of finalized criteria. We collected the data concerning parameters related to the finalized criteria by considering 2700 soil samples. Data required at the ungauged locations are estimated using the kriging interpolation technique. The findings of this study suggest that sugarcane can be allocated up to 20% of the land area. In addition to the principal crops (i.e., sugarcane, wheat, and rice), potato, mustard, maize, and sorghum also have good cultivation potential in Muzaffarnagar and can be grown on up to 20%, 22%, 18%, 21% of the land area respectively while just 1.5%, 1.8%, 0.1%, and 0% of land area, is used for their cultivation. With the prime focus on knowledge transfer from scientific studies to farmers, we used an open-source geospatial repository to develop an interactive dashboard that can fetch farmers' locations and present each crop's suitability based on optimized crop rotation practices.

    Real-time, highly accurate robotic grasp detection utilizing transfer learning for robots manipulating fragile fruits with widely variable sizes and shapes

    Cao B.Zhang B.Zheng W.Lin Y....
    11页
    查看更多>>摘要:? 2022 Elsevier B.V.The automatic picking, sorting, and packaging of fruits require robots to accurately detect the grasping position of fruits. However, accurate detection of grasping positions is challenging due to the diversity of fruit shapes and sizes. At present, research objects of grasping detection are mainly daily necessities and office items, and few studies on fruit-grasping detection are available. To solve these problems, four end-to-end detection models were designed based on three convolutional neural network architectures: Xception, MobileNetV3, and DenseNet. In addition, considering the large amount of data required for deep learning, data augmentation and transfer learning techniques were applied to improve model accuracy and generalization performance. The most widely applied evaluation criteria were used to evaluate the models, and the accuracy of the four models ranged within 83.86%–93.64%. All the models were capable of rapid real-time detection. To verify the robustness, the models were tested under different evaluation thresholds, and the results showed that the models performed well under higher evaluation criteria. Additionally, a dataset containing 4400 images of 11 common fruits was established due to the current lack of data for fruit grasp detection.

    3D reconstruction method for tree seedlings based on point cloud self-registration

    Yang T.Ye J.Zhou S.Xu A....
    9页
    查看更多>>摘要:? 2022The 3D reconstruction of tree seedlings can help to assess phenotypic architectures, conceive virtual urban landscapes and design computer games. The existing multicamera photograph technology already has the capability to accurately reconstruct 3D models for small scene plants, such as corn and vegetable seedlings. However, the existing plant 3D reconstruction system has several shortcomings, such as its high cost, complicated operation procedure, and unsuitability for seedling trees. Therefore, this paper proposes an autonomous alignment method for seedling point clouds that can realize the low-cost and fast 3D reconstruction of batch seedlings. In this study, we designed a system based on a low-cost Kinect camera and a precision turntable to construct 3D seedling models. A special turntable was adopted to achieve self-registration for the seedling point clouds. It was efficient for us to obtain several 3D seedlings models with only one registration. The system could capture images automatically from different viewpoints and submit these images to a graphic workstation for processing. In our work, we set three fixed views, V2, V3 and V4, to evaluate the cumulative errors caused by multiview matching. It needn't touch any parts of the seedings to create 3D models at different view by the proposed method. Herein, the large proportions of 0 < mean absolute distance, MD ≤ 0.6 cm and 0 < standard deviation, SD ≤ 0.4 cm, between the reference and the reconstructed point cloud showed that the 3D reconstruction method was accurate, stable and flexible. Additionally, we validated the phenotypic structure measurement, and the height H was highly accurate (R2 > 0.985) when using the 3D reconstruction models of seedlings. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed method has the potential to obtain high-precision 3D reconstruction models and phenotypic parameters for seedlings via low-cost equipment with high-efficiency processing algorithms.

    Site suitability assessment for traditional betel vine cultivation and crop acreage expansion in Tamluk Subdivision of Eastern India using AHP-based multi-criteria decision making approach

    Hudait M.Patel P.P.
    19页
    查看更多>>摘要:? 2022 Elsevier B.V.Crop-specific land suitability analysis can better support a region's agricultural base and enhance its resource utilization efficiency. In this study, we employ the Analytical Hierarchic Process-based Multi-Criteria Decision-Making approach together with geospatial inputs/methods to assess land suitability for betel leaf cultivation in Tamluk Subdivision of Purba Medinipur district in West Bengal, India. Seventeen individual parameters grouped into five categories – physiographic, land use and land cover, climatic, pedologic and infrastructural – were used. The respective ranks of the influencing factors were assigned based on collated farmer responses and expert opinions obtained during an extensive field survey, while a pair-wise comparison matrix was used to calculate their respective weights. Internal variations within individual factors were categorized by assigning scores based on their importance to betel leaf production, as ascertained from published literature and fieldwork. Results show that only 6.86% of the region is highly suitable and available for betel leaf cultivation, 30.15% area is moderately suitable, while 11.26% is marginally suitable but can be enhanced through apt land/water management practices. A 500 × 500 m grid overlay further elicited location specific combinations of the different land suitability classes and the presence/absence of waterbodies required for irrigation. It also ascertained the locational aptness of current betel leaf plots while identifying new expansion sites for this crop on the basis of grids having more than 40% of suitable lands with available water resources. The study presents possibly the first documentation of land suitability specifically for betel vine plots in Eastern India and thus thus provides a valuable insight into this high-value cash crop agribusiness, which can be useful for framing crop-specific policies. The methods used herein can be readily employed for similar agricultural assessments (in respect of betel vine or other crops) in other regions.

    Joint path planning and scheduling for vehicle-assisted multiple Unmanned Aerial Systems plant protection operation

    Xu Y.Lan Y.Xue X.Sun Z....
    14页
    查看更多>>摘要:? 2022Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) for plant protection have been playing increasingly important roles in agricultural field management. Nevertheless, constrained by pesticide loading capacity and battery endurance limit, the operation area of UAS or UAS swarm is quite limited, prohibiting them from serving large-scale applications. Previous works in the UAS or UAS swarm operation never considered vehicle scheduling, thus unable to cover multiple segmented agricultural fields distributed large-scale. Therefore, we propose a joint path planning and scheduling for vehicle-assisted multiple plant protection Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) operation. With the help of vehicle, UASs are able to spray pesticide on numerous fields distributed large-scale. Vehicle stop selection, the coordination between vehicle scheduling and UASs tasks assignment along with path planning could be determined and optimized. The test results show that the overall efficiency and the vehicle stop selection are greatly affected by the UAS number and loading capacity. Vehicle-assisted multi-UASs total operation time and non-spraying flight distance could be saved, with optimized vehicle stops utilizing a binary-coded genetic algorithm (GA). The total operation time difference could be minimal in certain cases when deploying different UAS swarms with the same UAS number but different loading capacity. A significant reduction in total operation time and UASs non-spraying flight distance could be achieved by using the proposed method. Compared with other methods, the total operation time could be reduced by 2 h when controlling 2 or 3 UASs; moreover, a sharp decrease (20–30%) in UAS swarm non-spraying flight distance wastage could be attained.

    Automated measurement of dairy cows body size via 3D point cloud data analysis

    Xu X.Song L.Zhang Q.Duan Y....
    14页
    查看更多>>摘要:? 2022 Elsevier B.V.Body measurement plays an important role in the breeding and production of dairy cows. Body measurement is mainly done manually, which is laborious, imprecise, and prone to stressful behavior in animals. A portable non-contact 3D measurement system of dairy cow body using smartphones was proposed in this study. Reconstruction of 3D point clouds scene containing the cow through a Structure-from-Motion (SfM) photogrammetry, the RANdom SAmple Consensus (RANSAC), and the Euclidean clustering were used to segment the scene and extract cow's point clouds. Aiming to solve the holes in the cow point cloud caused by the barrier and legs occlusion, a completion method based on the spline curve with a smoothing factor was proposed. The automatic measurement of body size was realized through morphological features. The accuracy of the proposed system was evaluated in a commercial dairy farm. Compared with mesh-based method, the proposed point cloud hole completion method reduced the maximum relative errors of chest girth and chest width by 2.22% and 2.18%. Under different cow postures, the average relative error between automatic body size measurement algorithm and manual calibration was less than 4.67%. The average relative error between the measured value of the non-contact measurement system and the actual value of withers height, body length, chest girth, and chest width were 2.41%, 3.18%, 4.37%, and 6.12%, respectively. The results showed that the proposed method can be used as an automatic and non-contact approach for measuring animal body size.