A Multispectral Pest-Detection Algorithm for Precision Agriculture

Invertebrates are abundant in horticulture and farming environments, and can be detrimental. Early pest detection for an integrated pest-management system with an integration of physical, biological, and prophylactic methods has huge potential for the better yield of crops. Computer vision techniques with multispectral images are used to detect and classify pests in dynamic environmental conditions, such as sunlight variations, partial occlusions, low contrast, etc. Various state-of-art, deep learning approaches have been proposed, but there are some major limitations to these methods. For example, labelled images are required to supervise the training of deep networks, which is tiresome work. Secondly, a huge in-situ database with variant environmental conditions is not available for deep learning, or is difficult to build for fretful bioaggressors. In this paper, we propose a machine-vision-based multispectral pest-detection algorithm, which does not require any kind of supervised network training. Multispectral images are used as input for the proposed pest-detection algorithm, and each image provides comprehensive information about different textural and morphological features, and visible information, i.e., size, shape, orientation, color, and wing patterns for each insect. Feature identification is performed by a SURF algorithm, and feature extraction is accomplished by least median of square regression (LMEDS). Feature fusion of RGB and NIR images onto the coordinates of Ultraviolet (UV) is performed after affine transformation. The mean identification errors of type I, II, and total mean error surpass the mean errors of the state-of-art methods. The type I, II, and total mean errors, with 6.672% UV weights, were emanated to 1.62, 40.27, and 3.26, respectively.

A Multi-Source Data Fusion Decision-Making Method for Disease and Pest Detection of Grape Foliage Based on ShuffleNet V2

Disease and pest detection of grape foliage is essential for grape yield and quality. RGB image (RGBI), multispectral image (MSI), and thermal infrared image (TIRI) are widely used in the health detection of plants. In this study, we collected three types of grape foliage images with six common classes (anthracnose, downy mildew, leafhopper, mites, viral disease, and healthy) in the field. ShuffleNet V2 was used to build up detection models. According to the accuracy of RGBI, MSI, TIRI, and multi-source data concatenation (MDC) models, and a multi-source data fusion (MDF) decision-making method was proposed for improving the detection performance for grape foliage, aiming to enhance the decision-making for RGBI of grape foliage by fusing the MSI and TIRI. The results showed that 40% of the incorrect detection outputs were rectified using the MDF decision-making method. The overall accuracy of MDF model was 96.05%, which had improvements of 2.64%, 13.65%, and 27.79%, compared with the RGBI, MSI, and TIRI models using label smoothing, respectively. In addition, the MDF model was based on the lightweight network with 3.785 M total parameters and 0.362 G multiply-accumulate operations, which could be highly portable and easy to be applied.

Real-Time Remote Sensing of the Lobesia botrana Moth Using a Wireless Acoustic Detection Sensor

This article presents a wireless sensor for pest detection, specifically the Lobesia botrana moth or vineyard moth. The wireless sensor consists of an acoustic-based detection of the sound generated by a flying Lobesia botrana moth. Once a Lobesia botrana moth is detected, the information about the time, geographical location of the sensor and the number of detection events is sent to a server that gathers the detection statistics in real-time. To detect the Lobesia botrana, its acoustic signal was previously characterized in a controlled environment, obtaining its power spectral density for the acoustic filter design. The sensor is tested in a controlled laboratory environment where the detection of the flying moths is successfully achieved in the presence of all types of environmental noises. Finally, the sensor is installed on a vineyard in a region where the moth has already been detected. The device is able to detect flying Lobesia botrana moths during its flying period, giving results that agree with traditional field traps.

Pest Detection in Plants Using Convolutional Neural Network

Agriculture or farming is an imperative occupation since the historical backdrop of humanity is kept up. Artificial Intelligence is leading to a revolution in the agricultural practices. This revolution has safeguarded the crops from being affected by distinct factors like climate changes, porosity of the soil, availability of water, etc. The other factors that affect agriculture includes the increase in population, changes in the economy, issues related to food security, etc. Artificial Intelligence finds a lot of applications in the agricultural sector also which includes crop monitoring, soil management, pest detection, weed management and a lot more. Significant problems for sustainable farming include detection of illness and healthy monitoring of plants. Therefore, plant disease must automatically be detected with higher precision by means of image processing technology at an early stage. It consists of image capturing, preprocessing images, image segmentation, extraction of features and disease classification. The digital image processing method is one of those strong techniques used far earlier than human eyes could see to identify the tough symptoms. Considering different climatic situations in various regions of the world that impact local weather conditions. These climate changes affect crop yield directly. There is a great demand for such a platform in the world of today which would enable the farmer market his farm products. We have proposed in this study a system where farmers can sell their products directly to customers without the intervention of distributors and traders. The predictive analytics system is necessary for the farmer to get the maximum yield which benefit the farmer. This may be done if the environment, market conditions and knowledge of the timely planning of farms are known properly. Keywords: Pest Detection, Artificial Intelligence, Agriculture, Image processing, Convolutional Neural Networks

A Lightweight YOLOv4-Based Forestry Pest Detection Method Using Coordinate Attention and Feature Fusion

Traditional pest detection methods are challenging to use in complex forestry environments due to their low accuracy and speed. To address this issue, this paper proposes the YOLOv4_MF model. The YOLOv4_MF model utilizes MobileNetv2 as the feature extraction block and replaces the traditional convolution with depth-wise separated convolution to reduce the model parameters. In addition, the coordinate attention mechanism was embedded in MobileNetv2 to enhance feature information. A symmetric structure consisting of a three-layer spatial pyramid pool is presented, and an improved feature fusion structure was designed to fuse the target information. For the loss function, focal loss was used instead of cross-entropy loss to enhance the network’s learning of small targets. The experimental results showed that the YOLOv4_MF model has 4.24% higher mAP, 4.37% higher precision, and 6.68% higher recall than the YOLOv4 model. The size of the proposed model was reduced to 1/6 of that of YOLOv4. Moreover, the proposed algorithm achieved 38.62% mAP with respect to some state-of-the-art algorithms on the COCO dataset.

Dropout, a basic and effective regularization method for a deep learning model: a case study

Deep learning is based on a network of artificial neurons inspired by the human brain. This network is made up of tens or even hundreds of "layers" of neurons. The fields of application of deep learning are indeed multiple; Agriculture is one of those fields in which deep learning is used in various agricultural problems (disease detection, pest detection, and weed identification). A major problem with deep learning is how to create a model that works well, not only on the learning set but also on the validation set. Many approaches used in neural networks are explicitly designed to reduce overfit, possibly at the expense of increasing validation accuracy and training accuracy. In this paper, a basic technique (dropout) is proposed to minimize overfit, we integrated it into a convolutional neural network model to classify weed species and see how it impacts performance, a complementary solution (exponential linear units) are proposed to optimize the obtained results. The results showed that these proposed solutions are practical and highly accurate, enabling us to adopt them in deep learning models.

IFSG: Intelligence agriculture crop-pest detection system using IoT automation system

The agricultural and technological combination is blessed for modern world life. Internet of things (IoT) is essential for comfort and development to our agriculture side. In our study, we detected the various pest using different types of sensors and this information has automatically sent to the farmer's mobile for the alert. All these sensors had a central database. Those sensors collect all the data and display the results compared to the central data. The High-image sensor will be able to detect all the rays emitted from the plant and another one is the gas sensor which is able to detect all the gases coming from the diseased plant. We mainly use sound sensor, MQ138, CMOSOV-7670, AMG-8833 for a better automation system. We test it with real-time environment conditions (40°C≤TA≤14°C). Crop pest detection automatic process is more efficient than the other detection process according to testing output. As a result, far-reaching changes in the agricultural sector are possible. To reduce extra cost and increasing more farming ability we need to IoT and Agriculture combinations more.