ULLAH, Sajid, Klára PANZAROVÁ, Martin TRTÍLEK, Matej LEXA, Vojtěch MÁČALA, Thomas ALTMANN, Kerstin NEUMANN, Jan HEJÁTKO, Markéta PERNISOVÁ and Evgeny GLADILIN. High-throughput spike detection in greenhouse cultivated grain crops with attention mechanisms based deep learning models. Plant Phenomics. AAAS, 2024, vol. 2024, March, p. 1-11. ISSN 2643-6515. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.34133/plantphenomics.0155.
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Original name High-throughput spike detection in greenhouse cultivated grain crops with attention mechanisms based deep learning models
Authors ULLAH, Sajid (586 Pakistan, belonging to the institution), Klára PANZAROVÁ, Martin TRTÍLEK, Matej LEXA (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution), Vojtěch MÁČALA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Thomas ALTMANN, Kerstin NEUMANN, Jan HEJÁTKO (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Markéta PERNISOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Evgeny GLADILIN.
Edition Plant Phenomics, AAAS, 2024, 2643-6515.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10201 Computer sciences, information science, bioinformatics
Country of publisher United States of America
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 6.500 in 2022
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.34133/plantphenomics.0155
UT WoS 001231155500001
Keywords in English spike detection; high-throughput image analysis; Attention networks; Deep Neural Networks
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Markéta Pernisová, Ph.D., učo 11554. Changed: 15/6/2024 13:13.
Abstract
Detection of spikes is the first important step towards image-based quantitative assessment of crop yield. However, spikes of grain plants occupy only a tiny fraction of the image area and often emerge in the middle of the mass of plant leaves that exhibit similar colors as spike regions. Consequently, accurate detection of grain spikes renders, in general, a non-trivial task even for advanced, state-of-the-art deep learning neural networks (DNNs). To improve pattern detection in spikes, we propose architectural changes to Faster-RCNN (FRCNN) by reducing feature extraction layers and introducing a global attention module. The performance of our extended FRCNN-A vs. conventional FRCNN was compared on images of different European wheat cultivars, including ’difficult’ bushy phenotypes from two different phenotyping facilities and optical setups. Our experimental results show that introduced architectural adaptations in FRCNN-A helped to improve spike detection accuracy in inner regions. The mAP of FRCNN and FRCNN-A on inner spikes is 76.0% and 81.0%, respectively, while on the state-of-the-art detection DNNs, Swin Transformer mAP is 83.0%. As a lightweight network, FRCNN-A is faster than FRCNN and Swin Transformer on both baseline and augmented training datasets. On the FastGAN augmented dataset, FRCNN achieved mAP of 84.24%, FRCNN-A 85.0%, and the Swin Transformer 89.45%. The increase in mAP of DNNs on the augmented datasets is proportional to the amount of the IPK original and augmented images. Overall, this study indicates a superior performance of attention mechanisms-based deep learning models in detecting small and subtle features of grain spikes.
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