Multi-Spectral Visual Crop Assessment Under Limited Data Constraints

Patricia O'Byrne, Patrick Jackman, Damon Berry, Hector-Hugo Franco-Penya, Robert J. Ross

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Abstract

In an era of climate change and global population growth, deep learning based multi-spectral imaging has the potential to significantly assist in production management across a wide range of agricultural and food production domains. A key challenge however in applying state-of-the-art methods is that they, unlike classical hand crafted methods, are usually thought of as being only useful when significant amounts of data are available. In this paper we investigate this hypothesis by examining the performance of state-of-the-art deep learning methods when applied to a restricted data set that is not easily bootstrapped through pre-trained image processing networks. We demonstrate that significant result improvement can be obtained from deep residual networks over a baseline image processing model -- even in the case where data collection is highly expensive and pre-trained networks cannot be easily built upon. Our work also constitutes a useful contribution to understanding the benefit of applying deep image multi-spectral processing techniques to the agri-food domain.
Original languageEnglish
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
EventIrish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference 2019 - Grangegorman Campus, TU Dublin, Ireland
Duration: 28 Aug 201930 Aug 2019

Conference

ConferenceIrish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference 2019
Country/TerritoryIreland
CityGrangegorman Campus, TU Dublin
Period28/08/1930/08/19

Keywords

  • climate change
  • global population growth
  • deep learning
  • multi-spectral imaging
  • production management
  • agricultural
  • food production
  • data constraints
  • deep residual networks
  • agri-food domain

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