Estimation of corn crop damage caused by wildlife in UAV images
[ 1 ] Wydział Automatyki, Robotyki i Elektrotechniki, Politechnika Poznańska | [ 2 ] Instytut Robotyki i Inteligencji Maszynowej, Wydział Automatyki, Robotyki i Elektrotechniki, Politechnika Poznańska | [ SzD ] doctoral school student | [ P ] employee
[2.2] Automation, electronics, electrical engineering and space technologies
2024
scientific article
english
- corn crops damages
- aerial images
- UAV
- deep convolutional neural networks
EN This paper proposes a low-cost and low-effort solution for determining the area of corn crops damaged by the wildlife facility utilising field images collected by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The proposed solution allows for the determination of the percentage of the damaged crops and their location. The method utilises image segmentation models based on deep convolutional neural networks (e.g., UNet family) and transformers (SegFormer) trained on over 300 hectares of diverse corn fields in western Poland. A range of neural network architectures was tested to select the most accurate final solution. The tests show that despite using only easily accessible RGB data available from inexpensive, consumer-grade UAVs, the method achieves sufficient accuracy to be applied in practical solutions for agriculture-related tasks, as the IoU (Intersection over Union) metric for segmentation of healthy and damaged crop reaches 0.88. The proposed method allows for easy calculation of the total percentage and visualisation of the corn crop damages. The processing code and trained model are shared publicly.
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