Soil salinization poses a critical challenge to global food security, impacting plant growth, development, and crop yield. This study investigates the efficacy of deep learning techniques alongside chlorophyll fluorescence (ChlF) imaging technology for discerning varying levels of salt stress in soybean seedlings. Traditional methods for stress identification in plants are often laborious and time-intensive, prompting the exploration of more efficient approaches. A total of six classic convolutional neural network (CNN) models—AlexNet, GoogLeNet, ResNet50, ShuffleNet, SqueezeNet, and MobileNetv2—are evaluated for salt stress recognition based on three types of ChlF images. Results indicate that ResNet50 outperforms other models in classifying salt stress levels across three types of ChlF images. Furthermore, feature fusion after extracting three types of ChlF image features in the average pooling layer of ResNet50 significantly enhanced classification accuracy, achieving the highest accuracy of 98.61% in particular when fusing features from three types of ChlF images. UMAP dimensionality reduction analysis confirms the discriminative power of fused features in distinguishing salt stress levels. These findings underscore the efficacy of deep learning and ChlF imaging technologies in elucidating plant responses to salt stress, offering insights for precision agriculture and crop management. Overall, this study demonstrates the potential of integrating deep learning with ChlF imaging for precise and efficient crop stress detection, offering a robust tool for advancing precision agriculture. The findings contribute to enhancing agricultural sustainability and addressing global food security challenges by enabling more effective crop stress management.
In this paper, the principle of denoising with wavelet transform are discussed. The application of wavelet threshold denoising method in MCG-signal processing problem is introduced. Program is written by MATLAB to realize wavelet threshold denoising method. The results show that the wavelet threshold denoising method in the MCG-signal denoising can not only restrain the noise effectively, but also reserve the fault character information in the original signal. The signals by this method are better improvements than traditional method.
Accurate and effective monitoring of environmental parameters in tea seedling greenhouses is an important basis for regulating the seedling environment, which is crucial for improving the seedling growth quality. This study proposes a tea seedling growth simulation (TSGS) model based on deep learning. The Internet of Things system was used to measure environmental change during the whole seedling process. The correlation between the environmental parameters and the biomass growth of tea seedlings in various varieties was analyzed. A CNN-LSTM network was proposed to build the TSGS model of light, temperature, water, gas, mineral nutrition, and growth biomass. The results showed that: (1) the average correlation coefficients of air temperature, soil temperature, and soil moisture with the biomass growth of tea seedlings were 0.78, 0.84, and −0.63, respectively, which were three important parameters for establishing the TSGS model. (2) For evaluating the TSGS model of a single variety, the accuracy of ZM’s TSGS based on the CNN-LSTM network was the highest (Rp2 = 0.98, RMSEP = 0.14). (3) For evaluating the TSGS model of multiple varieties, the accuracy of TSGS based on the CNN-LSTM network was the highest (Rp2 = 0.96, RMSEP = 0.17). This study provided effective technical parameters for intelligent control of tea-cutting growth and a new method for rapid breeding.
The number of soybean pods is a key determinant of soybean yield, making accurate detection and counting essential for yield estimation, cultivation management, and variety selection. Traditional manual counting methods are labor-intensive and time-consuming, and while object detection networks are widely applied in agricultural tasks, the dense distribution and overlapping occlusion of soybean pods present significant challenges. This study developed a soybean pod detection model, YOLOv8n-POD, based on the YOLOv8n network, incorporating key innovations to address these issues. A Dense Block Backbone (DBB) enhances the model’s adaptability to the morphological diversity of soybean pods, while the Separated and Enhancement Attention Module (SEAM) in the neck section improves the representation of pod-related features in feature maps. Additionally, a Dynamic Head increases the flexibility in detecting pods of varying scales. The model achieved an average precision (AP) of 83.1%, surpassing mainstream object detection methodologies with a 5.3% improvement over YOLOv8. Tests on three public datasets further demonstrated its generalizability to other crops. The proposed YOLOv8n-POD model provides robust support for accurate detection and localization of soybean pods, essential for yield estimation and breeding strategies, and its significant theoretical and practical implications extend its applicability to other crop types, advancing agricultural automation and precision farming.
1 January 2021 in Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience
This research designs an intelligent parking system including service application layer, perception layer, data analysis layer, and management layer. The network system adopts opm15 system, and the parking space recognition adopts improved convolution neural networks (CNNs) algorithm and image recognition technology. Firstly, the parking space is occupied and located, and the shortest path (Dynamic Programming, DP) is selected. In order to describe the path algorithm, the parking system model is established. Aiming at the problems of DP low power and adjacent path interference in the path detection system, a method of combining interference elimination technology with enhanced detector technology is proposed to effectively eliminate the interference path signal and improve the performance of the intelligent parking system. In order to verify whether the CNNs system designed in this study has advantages, the simulation experiments of CNNs, ZigBee, and manual parking are carried out. The results show that the parking system designed in this study can control the parking error, has smaller parking error than ZigBee, and has more than 25.64% less parking time than ZigBee, and more than 34.83% less time than manual parking. In terms of parking energy consumption, when there are less free parking spaces, CNNs have lower energy consumption.
5 July 2024 in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
The structure of plant communities and their response to temperature variations are an essential basis for evaluating the ecological structure and function of tea plantations. However, field surveys and quantitative evaluation of plant communities and eco-tea plantations remain challenging. In this study, a novel strategy was proposed for rapid surveillance of plant community structure and its response to changes in weather conditions in tea plantations. This strategy aims to construct the normalized tea plantation ecological index (NTEI) by synergizing environmental parameters with multi-source remote sensing data; establish the fitting and inversion model of NTEI by cascading the Fourier function with the convolutional neural networks-gate recurrent unit (CNN-GRU) network; and evaluate the variability of the plant community in tea plantations by analyzing the variation characteristics of the NTEI and the measured temperature. The study revealed that: (1) The NTEI can objectively characterize the plant communities of tea plantations, and its variation characteristics were consistent with the changes in vegetation phenology and temperature; (2) The Fourier function has the potential to quantify NTEI, and it's fitting R2 for the NTEI of 9 plant communities ranged from 0.840 to 0.921; (3) The CNN-GRU has the most advantage in establishing the prediction model of NTEI, and its prediction accuracy was Rp2=0.955, RMSEP=0.314; (4) The plant communities with high species richness increased regional ecological stability, had a strong buffering capacity against temperature changes, and had less variability in NTEI. The results provide significant guidance for building plant community structures and improving the ecological benefits of tea plantations.