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Fruit detection in an orchard using deep learning approaches

Thesis (MSc)--Stellenbosch University, 2022.

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Main Author: Koech, Kiprono Elijah
Other Authors: Bah, Bubacarr
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spelling oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/124967 Fruit detection in an orchard using deep learning approaches Koech, Kiprono Elijah Bah, Bubacarr Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Science. Dept. of Mathematical Sciences (Applied Mathematics) Object detection Image segmentation Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) Fruit detection UCTD Deep learning (Machine learning) Thesis (MSc)--Stellenbosch University, 2022. ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Over the last few years, we have witnessed rapid advancement in technology in different fields: communication, transport security, finance, and medicine. Agriculture is no exception. Today, agriculture is practised with sophisticated technologies such as satellite imaging, soil and water sensors, weather tracking, and robots. Fruit detection is a critical process in robot harvesting and yield estimation. With the rise in deep learning, state-of-the-art object detectors have been developed. In this paper, we deploy two state-of-the-art model detectors; namely, Mask Region-based CNN (Mask R-CNN), and You Only Look Once (YOLOv5), in the context of fruit detection. The training data are orchard images of apples and mangoes taken under natural outdoor conditions. The images are taken under varied illumination conditions to ensure that the models learn rich features allowing them to generalize well in a new dataset. Ablation studies are presented to understand how the two models compare in terms of accuracy and speed at inference time. We also investigated the significance of transfer learning in such an application. In particular, we considered weight initialization using ImageNet, COCO, and weights from models trained on a di erent orchard dataset. As a post-processing step, we implemented ensemble techniques on the detection results of the two models. Mask R-CNN and YOLOv5 attained an F1 score of 93% on mangoes datasets and 88% on apple images, and ensembling led to an up to 3% increase in F1 score. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Oor die laaste paar jaar het ons vinnige vooruitgang in tegnologie op verskillende terreine gesien: kommunikasie, vervoersekuriteit, finansies en medisyne. Landbou is geen uitsondering nie. Vandag word landbou beoefen met gesofistikeerde tegnologieê soos satellietbeelding, grond- en watersensors, weeropsporing en robotte. Vrugopsporing is 'n kritieke proses in robot-oes en opbrengsskatting. Met die toename in diep leer, state-of-the-art voorwerp- verklikkers ontwikkel. In hierdie vraestel, ontplooi ons twee state-of-the-art model detectors; naamlik, Maskerstreek-gebaseerde CNN (Mask R-CNN), en You Only Look Once (YOLOv5), in die konteks van vrugte-opsporing. Die opleidingsdata is boordbeelde van appels en mango's wat onder natuurlike buitelugtoestande geneem is. Die beelde word onder verskillende beligtings- toestande geneem om te verseker dat die modelle ryk kenmerke aanleer wat hulle in staat stel om goed te veralgemeen in 'n nuwe datastel. Ablasiestu- dies word aangebied om te verstaan hoe die twee modelle vergelyk in terme van akkuraatheid en spoed op afleidingstyd. Ons het ook die belangrikheid van oordragleer in so 'n toepassing ondersoek. Ons het veral gewigsinisiasie oorweeg met behulp van ImageNet, COCO en gewigte van modelle wat op 'n ander boorddatastel opgelei is. As 'n naverwerkingstap het ons ensemble- tegnieke op die opsporingsresultate van die twee modelle geà mplementeer. Masker R-CNN en YOLOv5 het 'n F1-telling van 93% op mango's-datastelle en 88% op appelbeelde behaal, en samestelling het gelei tot 'n tot 3% toename in F1-telling. Masters 2022-03-11T14:49:11Z 2022-04-29T09:43:59Z 2022-03-11T14:49:11Z 2022-04-29T09:43:59Z 2022-04 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/124967 en_ZA Stellenbosch University 115 pages application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University
spellingShingle Object detection
Image segmentation
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)
Fruit detection
UCTD
Deep learning (Machine learning)
Koech, Kiprono Elijah
Fruit detection in an orchard using deep learning approaches
title Fruit detection in an orchard using deep learning approaches
title_full Fruit detection in an orchard using deep learning approaches
title_fullStr Fruit detection in an orchard using deep learning approaches
title_full_unstemmed Fruit detection in an orchard using deep learning approaches
title_short Fruit detection in an orchard using deep learning approaches
title_sort fruit detection in an orchard using deep learning approaches
topic Object detection
Image segmentation
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)
Fruit detection
UCTD
Deep learning (Machine learning)
url http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/124967
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