Using prior information to improve crop/weed classification by MAV swarms

Precision agriculture can benefit from the us- age of swarms of drones to monitor a field. Crop/weed classification is a concrete applica- tion that can be efficiently carried out through collaborative approaches, whereby the infor- mation gathered by a drone can be exploited as prior to improve the classification per- formed by other drones observing the same area. In this study, we instantiate this con- cept by exploiting state-of-the-art deep learn- ing techniques. We propose the usage of a shallow convolutional neural network that re- ceives as input, besides the RGB channels of the acquired image, also an additional chan- nel that represents a probability map about the presence of weeds in the observed area. Exploiting a realistic, synthetic dataset, the performance is assessed showing a substancial improvement in the classification accuracy.

Publication type: 
Contributo in atti di convegno
Author or Creator: 
Federico Magistri
Daniele Nardi
Vito Trianni
Source: 
11th INTERNATIONAL MICRO AIR VEHICLE COMPETITION AND CONFERENCE (IMAV 2019), pp. 67–75, 2019
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Date: 
2019
Resource Identifier: 
http://www.cnr.it/prodotto/i/432561
http://www.imavs.org/papers/2019/41732.pdf
Language: 
Eng
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