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Image recognition and empirical application of desert plant species based on convolutional neural network

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In recent years, deep convolution neural network has exhibited excellent performance in computer vision and has a far-reaching impact. Traditional plant taxonomic identification requires high expertise, which is time-consuming. Most nature reserves have problems such as incomplete species surveys, inaccurate taxonomic identification, and untimely updating of status data. Simple and accurate recognition of plant images can be achieved by applying convolutional neural network technology to explore the best network model. Taking 24 typical desert plant species that are widely distributed in the nature reserves in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China as the research objects, this study established an image database and select the optimal network model for the image recognition of desert plant species to provide decision support for fine management in the nature reserves in Xinjiang, such as species investigation and monitoring, by using deep learning. Since desert plant species were not included in the public dataset, the images used in this study were mainly obtained through field shooting and downloaded from the Plant Photo Bank of China (PPBC). After the sorting process and statistical analysis, a total of 2331 plant images were finally collected (2071 images from field collection and 260 images from the PPBC), including 24 plant species belonging to 14 families and 22 genera. A large number of numerical experiments were also carried out to compare a series of 37 convolutional neural network models with good performance, from different perspectives, to find the optimal network model that is most suitable for the image recognition of desert plant species in Xinjiang. The results revealed 24 models with a recognition Accuracy, of greater than 70.000%. Among which, Residual Network X_8GF (RegNetX_8GF) performs the best, with Accuracy, Precision, Recall, and F1 (which refers to the harmonic mean of the Precision and Recall values) values of 78.33%, 77.65%, 69.55%, and 71.26%, respectively. Considering the demand factors of hardware equipment and inference time, Mobile NetworkV2 achieves the best balance among the Accuracy, the number of parameters and the number of floating-point operations. The number of parameters for Mobile Network V2 (MobileNetV2) is 1/16 of RegNetX_8GF, and the number of floating-point operations is 1/24. Our findings can facilitate efficient decision-making for the management of species survey, cataloging, inspection, and monitoring in the nature reserves in Xinjiang, providing a scientific basis for the protection and utilization of natural plant resources.

desert plantsimage recognitiondeep learningconvolutional neural networkResidual Network X_8GF (RegNetX_8GF)Mobile Network V2 (MobileNetV2)nature reserves

LI Jicai、SUN Shiding、JIANG Haoran、TIAN Yingjie、XU Xiaoliang

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School of Economics and Management,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100190,China

School of Mathematical Sciences,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100049,China

Key Laboratory of Big Data Mining and Knowledge Management,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100190,China

Research Center on Fictitious Economy and Data Science,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100190,China

Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Urumqi 830011,China

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2019-XBQNXZ-A-0071207145871731009

2022

干旱区科学
中国科学院新疆生态与地理研究所,科学出版社

干旱区科学

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影响因子:1.743
ISSN:1674-6767
年,卷(期):2022.14(12)
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