Bag-of-visual-words-augmented Histogram of Oriented Gradients for efficient weed detection. (February 2021)
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- Journal Article
- Title:
- Bag-of-visual-words-augmented Histogram of Oriented Gradients for efficient weed detection. (February 2021)
- Main Title:
- Bag-of-visual-words-augmented Histogram of Oriented Gradients for efficient weed detection
- Authors:
- Abouzahir, Saad
Sadik, Mohamed
Sabir, Essaid - Abstract:
- Abstract : As season-long weeds competition produces important yield losses, early detection of these plants is essential to sustain productivity. Machine vision as a non-destructive surveying technique requires features that can describe weeds in a real field case. Colours and shapes provide good results in controlled conditions. However, when different crops or weeds appear in clusters, such solutions fail to meet satisfactory performance. Therefore, considering features that are less specific to field conditions is crucial for integrated weed management. In this study, we provide effective use of the Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) to improve its performance for weed detection. The concept is based on the Bag-of-Visual-Words (BOVW) approach. We use the HOG blocks as keypoints to generate the visual-words, and the features vectors are the histograms of these visual-words. Next, we use the Backpropagation Neural Network to detect weeds and classify plants for three different crop fields. Namely, we consider sugar-beet, soybean, and carrot as target crops. Results demonstrate that the proposed weed detection system can locate weeds for site-specific treatment and selective spraying of herbicides. The proposed BOVW-based HOG can discriminate between weeds and crops with an accuracy of 97.7%, 93%, and 96.6% in sugar-beet, carrot and soybean fields respectively. For plant classification, our method can classify plants with an accuracy of 90.4%, 92.4%, and 94.1% inAbstract : As season-long weeds competition produces important yield losses, early detection of these plants is essential to sustain productivity. Machine vision as a non-destructive surveying technique requires features that can describe weeds in a real field case. Colours and shapes provide good results in controlled conditions. However, when different crops or weeds appear in clusters, such solutions fail to meet satisfactory performance. Therefore, considering features that are less specific to field conditions is crucial for integrated weed management. In this study, we provide effective use of the Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) to improve its performance for weed detection. The concept is based on the Bag-of-Visual-Words (BOVW) approach. We use the HOG blocks as keypoints to generate the visual-words, and the features vectors are the histograms of these visual-words. Next, we use the Backpropagation Neural Network to detect weeds and classify plants for three different crop fields. Namely, we consider sugar-beet, soybean, and carrot as target crops. Results demonstrate that the proposed weed detection system can locate weeds for site-specific treatment and selective spraying of herbicides. The proposed BOVW-based HOG can discriminate between weeds and crops with an accuracy of 97.7%, 93%, and 96.6% in sugar-beet, carrot and soybean fields respectively. For plant classification, our method can classify plants with an accuracy of 90.4%, 92.4%, and 94.1% in sugar-beet, carrot and soybean fields respectively. Our results turn out 37.6% better than the classical HOG that produces an accuracy ranging from 71.2% to 83.3% in weed detection and 49.1%–82.1% in plant classification. Highlights: Combined BOWV and HOG for effective weed detection and classification. System performance was evaluated on three different crop fields. Usage of BOWV with HOG blocks turns to be 37.6% better than classical HOG. Weed detection system with promising results for SSWM and selective spraying. The method is efficient for weed detection under low/high plant densities. … (more)
- Is Part Of:
- Biosystems engineering. Volume 202(2021)
- Journal:
- Biosystems engineering
- Issue:
- Volume 202(2021)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 202, Issue 2021 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 202
- Issue:
- 2021
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0202-2021-0000
- Page Start:
- 179
- Page End:
- 194
- Publication Date:
- 2021-02
- Subjects:
- Computer vision -- Weed detection -- Neural Network -- Bag of visual words -- Histogram of oriented gradients
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631 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/15375110 ↗
http://www.elsevier.com/journals ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2020.11.005 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1537-5110
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