The common method for evaluating the extent of grape disease is to classify the disease spots according to the area. The prerequisite for this operation is to accurately segment the disease spots. This paper presents an improved DeepLab v3+ deep learning network for the segmentation of grapevine leaf black rot spots. The ResNet101 network is used as the backbone network of DeepLab v3+, and a channel attention module is inserted into the residual module. Moreover, a feature fusion branch based on a feature pyramid network is added to the DeepLab v3+ encoder, which fuses feature maps of different levels. Test set TS1 from Plant Village and test set TS2 from an orchard field were used for testing to verify the segmentation performance of the method. In the test set TS1, the improved DeepLab v3+ had 0.848, 0.881, and 0.918 on the mean intersection over union (mIOU), recall, and F1-score evaluation indicators, respectively, which was 3.0, 2.3, and 1.7% greater than the original DeepLab v3+. In the test set TS2, the improved DeepLab v3+ improved the evaluation indicators mIOU, recall, and F1-score by 3.3, 2.5, and 1.9%, respectively. The test results show that the improved DeepLab v3+ has better segmentation performance. It is more suitable for the segmentation of grape leaf black rot spots and can be used as an effective tool for grape disease grade assessment.
The disease spots on the grape leaves can be detected by using the image processing and deep learning methods. However, the accuracy and efficiency of the detection are still the challenges. The convolutional substrate information is fuzzy, and the detection results are not satisfactory if the disease spot is relatively small. In particular, the detection will be difficult if the number of pixels of the spot is <32 × 32 in the image. In order to effectively address this problem, we present a super-resolution image enhancement and convolutional neural network-based algorithm for the detection of black rot on grape leaves. First, the original image is up-sampled and enhanced with local details using the bilinear interpolation. As a result, the number of pixels in the image increase. Then, the enhanced images are fed into the proposed YOLOv3-SPP network for detection. In the proposed network, the IOU (Intersection Over Union, IOU) in the original YOLOv3 network is replaced with GIOU (Generalized Intersection Over Union, GIOU). In addition, we also add the SPP (Spatial Pyramid Pooling, SPP) module to improve the detection performance of the network. Finally, the official pre-trained weights of YOLOv3 are used for fast convergence. The test set test_pv from the Plant Village and the test set test_orchard from the orchard field were used to evaluate the network performance. The results of test_pv show that the grape leaf black rot is detected by the YOLOv3-SPP with 95.79% detection accuracy and 94.52% detector recall, which is a 5.94% greater in terms of accuracy and 10.67% greater in terms of recall as compared to the original YOLOv3. The results of test_orchard show that the method proposed in this paper can be applied in field environment with 86.69% detection precision and 82.27% detector recall, and the accuracy and recall were improved to 94.05 and 93.26% if the images with the simple background. Therefore, the detection method proposed in this work effectively solves the detection task of small targets and improves the detection effectiveness of the grape leaf black rot.
1 September 2021 in Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
In order to protect intangible cultural heritage and promote outstanding cultural works, this article introduces innovative research on Shen Embroidery using convolutional neural networks. The dataset of Shen Embroidery was preprocessed to augment the data required for experimentation. Moreover, the approach of transfer learning was introduced to fine-tune the recognition network. Specifically, Spatial Pyramid Pooling (SPP) is employed by replacing the avg pool in the MobileNet V1 network, achieving the fusion of local and global features. The experimental results showed that the improved MobileNet V1 achieved a recognition accuracy of 98.45%, which was 2.3% higher than the baseline MobileNet V1 network. The experiments demonstrated that the improved convolutional neural network can efficiently recognize Shen Embroidery and provide technical support for the intelligent development of intangible cultural heritage.
Aiming at the problems of low recognition rate of small target spots in grape leaf images and low detection accuracy due to low resolution of input images. In this paper, an improved recognition network based on YOLO v8 is constructed. In the constructed network, Spatial Pyramid Dilated Convolution (SPD-Conv) is used to replace each stepwise convolution layer and each pooling layer to better capture the detailed features of small targets. Meanwhile, the Efficient Multi-Scale Attention (EMA) Module is incorporated into the Neck part of YOLO v8 to make full use of the feature information of each detection layer and improve the accuracy of feature representation.The Plant Village dataset and the orchard image set are used to test the network performance of the improved model. The experimental test results show that the improved YOLO v8 has 92.64% precision, 93.28% recall and 96.17% AP. The size of model was a mere 7.1M. Compared to YOLO v8, the improvements are 2.38%, 1.91%, and 1.13%, respectively. Compared with the mainstream networks YOLO v4, YOLO v5, YOLO v6, and YOLO v7, precision is improved by 4.74%, 3.38%, 4.15%, and 4.69%, respectively. Therefore, the improved network proposed in this paper can improve the detection accuracy of small target objects and also identify the black rot disease of grape leaves more accurately.
1 January 2023 in Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering
In order to improve the segmentation effect of brain tumor images and address the issue of feature information loss during convolutional neural network (CNN) training, we present an MRI brain tumor segmentation method that leverages an enhanced U-Net architecture. First, the ResNet50 network was used as the backbone network of the improved U-Net, the deeper CNN can improve the feature extraction effect. Next, the Residual Module was enhanced by incorporating the Convolutional Block Attention Module (CBAM). To increase characterization capabilities, focus on important features and suppress unnecessary features. Finally, the cross-entropy loss function and the Dice similarity coefficient are mixed to compose the loss function of the network. To solve the class unbalance problem of the data and enhance the tumor area segmentation outcome. The method's segmentation performance was evaluated using the test set. In this test set, the enhanced U-Net achieved an average Intersection over Union (IoU) of 86.64% and a Dice evaluation score of 87.47%. These values were 3.13% and 2.06% higher, respectively, compared to the original U-Net and R-Unet models. Consequently, the proposed enhanced U-Net in this study significantly improves the brain tumor segmentation efficacy, offering valuable technical support for MRI diagnosis and treatment.