Zekai Cheng

Zekai Cheng


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Academic Career Length

21Years (2006-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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22 July 2022 in Applied Sciences
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ZCZekai Cheng
Zekai Cheng
Rongqing HuangRongqing Huang
Rongqing Huang
QRQian Rong
Qian Rong
WDWei Dong
Wei Dong
JZJingbo Zhu
Jingbo Zhu
MLMeifang Liu
Meifang Liu
Existing object detection methods with many parameters and computations are not suitable for deployment on devices with poor performance in agricultural environments. Therefore, this study proposes a lightweight crop pest detection method based on convolutional neural networks, named YOLOLite-CSG. The basic architecture of the method is derived from a simplified version of YOLOv3, namely YOLOLite, and k-means++ is utilized to improve the generation process of the prior boxes. In addition, a lightweight sandglass block and coordinate attention are used to optimize the structure of residual blocks. The method was evaluated on the CP15 crop pest dataset. Its detection precision exceeds that of YOLOv3, at 82.9%, while the number of parameters is 5 million, only 8.1% of the number used by YOLOv3, and the number of computations is 9.8 GFLOPs, only 15% of that used by YOLOv3. Furthermore, the detection precision of the method is superior to all other commonly used object detection methods evaluated in this study, with a maximum improvement of 10.6%, and it still has a significant edge in the number of parameters and computation required. The method has excellent pest detection precision with extremely few parameters and computations. It is well-suited to be deployed on equipment for detecting crop pests in agricultural environments.

25 July 2022 in Sensors
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ZCZekai Cheng
Zekai Cheng
MLMeifang Liu
Meifang Liu
QRQian Rong
Qian Rong
Rongqing HuangRongqing Huang
Rongqing Huang
WDWei Dong
Wei Dong
Crop diseases are one of the important factors affecting crop yield and quality and are also an important research target in the field of agriculture. In order to quickly and accurately identify crop diseases, help farmers to control crop diseases in time, and reduce crop losses. Inspired by the application of convolutional neural networks in image identification, we propose a lightweight crop disease image identification model based on attentional feature fusion named DSGIResNet_AFF, which introduces self-built lightweight residual blocks, inverted residuals blocks, and attentional feature fusion modules on the basis of ResNet18. We apply the model to the identification of rice and corn diseases, and the results show the effectiveness of the model on the real dataset. Additionally, the model is compared with other convolutional neural networks (AlexNet, VGG16, ShuffleNetV2, MobileNetV2, MobileNetV3-Small and MobileNetV3-Large), and the experimental results show that the accuracy, sensitivity, F1-score, AUC of the proposed model DSGIResNet_AFF are 98.30%, 98.23%, 98.24%, 99.97%, respectively, which are better than other network models, while the complexity of the model is significantly reduced (compared with the basic model ResNet18, the number of parameters is reduced by 94.10%, and the floating point of operations(FLOPs) is reduced by 86.13%). The network model DSGIResNet_AFF can be applied to mobile devices and become a useful tool for identifying crop diseases.

24 April 2024 in Expert Systems with Applications
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XQXiwen Qu
Xiwen Qu
JHJun Huang
Jun Huang
ZCZekai Cheng
Zekai Cheng

21 April 2017 in DEStech Transactions on Engineering and Technology Research
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ZCZekai Cheng
Zekai Cheng
QZQi Zhang
Qi Zhang
FQFeng Qin
Feng Qin
LZLi-Qin Zhu
Li-Qin Zhu
In this paper, taking the blast furnace temperature data as the data source, using association rules in data mining. Firstly, the practical significance of temperature data analysis of blast furnace in a steel plant is introduced. Secondly, the theory of data mining and association rules is given, detailed description of the principle of Apriori algorithm. This paper selects the temperature data of B blast furnace in a steel plant in September 2015 as the research object. Association Rule Mining for temperature data of blast furnace in a steel plant, and the association results are analyzed.

1 June 2021 in IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
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ZCZekai Cheng
Zekai Cheng
WXWan Xia
Wan Xia
Pest management is an essential part of the growth of crops. Accurately identifying the types of pests in the early stage is conducive to formulating targeted prevention and control measures to reduce pests’ impact on grain production. In order to identify the pests in the larval stage as early as possible, in this paper, we compare the conventional classification model and the fine-grained classification model and construct a fine-grained image classification model that can be used to classify the larvae of crop pests, which improves the ability to identify pests in the larval stage. Experiments show that our optimized fine-grained classification model surpasses the general convolution image classification model on the fine-grained agricultural pest datasetAgrFIP20.

1 January 2016
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YSYuan Song
Yuan Song
ZCZekai Cheng
Zekai Cheng
Passing ball action runs through the RoboCup simulation games, both teams spare no effort to win the game, the paper is going to study the connection between passing ball action and the game deeply. It puts forward to adopt the idea of Data Mining, analyzes games' log files by C language program in order to collect the required passing ball data, divides passing ball into 5 types which are seen as independent variables and see score as dependent variable, then establishing mathematical model combining with partial least-square(PLS).A few relevant figures are used to analyze and verify the experimental result which comes from SIMCA-P. The VIP values of 5 independent variables to dependent variable are as follows: 0.07980, 0.98735, 1.0.888, 1.10082, 1.33668 under the circumstance that carrying 73.2% of independent variables information and 74.3% of dependent variable information. After linking theoretical result with practical scene, it is concluded that long pass plays a major role in a game for passing ball.