Summary of Deep Learning For Precision Agriculture: Post-spraying Evaluation and Deposition Estimation, by Harry Rogers et al.
Deep Learning for Precision Agriculture: Post-Spraying Evaluation and Deposition Estimation
by Harry Rogers, Tahmina Zebin, Grzegorz Cielniak, Beatriz De La Iglesia, Ben Magri
First submitted to arxiv on: 24 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes an explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) computer vision pipeline to evaluate a precision spraying system post-spraying without the need for traditional agricultural methods. The developed system can semantically segment potential targets such as lettuce, chickweed, and meadowgrass and correctly identify if targets have been sprayed. The pipeline evaluates using a domain-specific Weakly Supervised Deposition Estimation task, allowing for class-specific quantification of spray deposit weights in microliters (μL). The study also compares different Class Activation Mapping techniques, such as AblationCAM and ScoreCAM, to determine which is more effective and interpretable. The pipeline uses inference-only feature fusion to enable the automation of precision spraying evaluation post-spray. Results show that a Fully Convolutional Network with an EfficientNet-B0 backbone and inference-only feature fusion achieves an average absolute difference in deposition values of 156.8 μL across three classes. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about using artificial intelligence to help farmers evaluate how well their crops have been sprayed with pesticides or fertilizers. The AI system can look at pictures taken after spraying and figure out what parts of the field got sprayed and what didn’t. It’s like having a super smart farmhand who can analyze lots of images quickly and accurately! The researchers tested different ways to do this and found that one method worked better than others. They also made their dataset (a collection of images) publicly available so other people can use it to improve the technology. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Convolutional network » Inference » Precision » Supervised
