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A density map-based method for counting wheat ears

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Guangwei Zhang
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Zhichao Wang
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Liu, Bo
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Limin Gu
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Wenchao Zhen
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Yao Wei *
DOI:10.3389/fpls.2024.1354428delete
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Introduction Field wheat ear counting is an important step in wheat yield estimation, and how to solve the problem of rapid and effective wheat ear counting in a field environment to ensure the stability of food supply and provide more reliable data support for agricultural management and policy making is a key concern in the current agricultural field.Methods There are still some bottlenecks and challenges in solving the dense wheat counting problem with the currently available methods. To address these issues, we propose a new method based on the YOLACT framework that aims to improve the accuracy and efficiency of dense wheat counting. Replacing the pooling layer in the CBAM module with a GeM pooling layer, and then introducing the density map into the FPN, these improvements together make our method better able to cope with the challenges in dense scenarios.Results Experiments show our model improves wheat ear counting performance in complex backgrounds. The improved attention mechanism reduces the RMSE from 1.75 to 1.57. Based on the improved CBAM, the R2 increases from 0.9615 to 0.9798 through pixel-level density estimation, the density map mechanism accurately discerns overlapping count targets, which can provide more granular information.Discussion The findings demonstrate the practical potential of our framework for intelligent agriculture applications.
Keywords:
counting wheat ears
instance segmentation
density map
CBAM
GeM pooling
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Frontiers in Plant Science cover
Frontiers in Plant Science
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