TobSet: A New Tobacco Crop and Weeds Image Dataset and Its Utilization for Vision-Based Spraying by Agricultural Robots
| Autor: | Muhammad Shahab Alam, Mansoor Alam, Muhammad Tufail, Muhammad Umer Khan, Ahmet Güneş, Bashir Salah, Fazal E. Nasir, Waqas Saleem, Muhammad Tahir Khan |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes
vision-based crop and weed detection Technology precision agriculture Faster R-CNN QH301-705.5 Physics QC1-999 Process Chemistry and Technology General Engineering selective spraying Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Computer Science Applications Chemistry YOLOv5 convolutional neural networks General Materials Science TA1-2040 Biology (General) QD1-999 Instrumentation |
| Zdroj: | Applied Sciences; Volume 12; Issue 3; Pages: 1308 Applied Sciences, Vol 12, Iss 1308, p 1308 (2022) |
| ISSN: | 2076-3417 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/app12031308 |
| Popis: | Selective agrochemical spraying is a highly intricate task in precision agriculture. It requires spraying equipment to distinguish between crop (plants) and weeds and perform spray operations in real-time accordingly. The study presented in this paper entails the development of two convolutional neural networks (CNNs)-based vision frameworks, i.e., Faster R-CNN and YOLOv5, for the detection and classification of tobacco crops/weeds in real time. An essential requirement for CNN is to pre-train it well on a large dataset to distinguish crops from weeds, lately the same trained network can be utilized in real fields. We present an open access image dataset (TobSet) of tobacco plants and weeds acquired from local fields at different growth stages and varying lighting conditions. The TobSet comprises 7000 images of tobacco plants and 1000 images of weeds and bare soil, taken manually with digital cameras periodically over two months. Both vision frameworks are trained and then tested using this dataset. The Faster R-CNN-based vision framework manifested supremacy over the YOLOv5-based vision framework in terms of accuracy and robustness, whereas the YOLOv5-based vision framework demonstrated faster inference. Experimental evaluation of the system is performed in tobacco fields via a four-wheeled mobile robot sprayer controlled using a computer equipped with NVIDIA GTX 1650 GPU. The results demonstrate that Faster R-CNN and YOLOv5-based vision systems can analyze plants at 10 and 16 frames per second (fps) with a classification accuracy of 98% and 94%, respectively. Moreover, the precise smart application of pesticides with the proposed system offered a 52% reduction in pesticide usage by spotting the targets only, i.e., tobacco plants. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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