Title
Multi-Input Convolutional Neural Network for Flower Grading.
Abstract
Flower grading is a significant task because it is extremely convenient for managing the flowers in greenhouse and market. With the development of computer vision, flower grading has become an interdisciplinary focus in both botany and computer vision. A new dataset named BjfuGloxinia contains three quality grades; each grade consists of 107 samples and 321 images. A multi-input convolutional neural network is designed for large scale flower grading. Multi-input CNN achieves a satisfactory accuracy of 89.6% on the BjfuGloxinia after data augmentation. Compared with a single-input CNN, the accuracy of multi-input CNN is increased by 5% on average, demonstrating that multi-input convolutional neural network is a promising model for flower grading. Although data augmentation contributes to the model, the accuracy is still limited by lack of samples diversity. Majority of misclassification is derived from the medium class. The image processing based bud detection is useful for reducing the misclassification, increasing the accuracy of flower grading to approximately 93.9%.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1155/2017/9240407
JOURNAL OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Field
DocType
Volume
Grading (education),Computer science,Convolutional neural network,Image processing,Artificial intelligence,Machine learning
Journal
2017
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2090-0147
3
0.46
References 
Authors
5
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yu Sun1223.15
Lin Zhu230.46
Guan Wang3212.44
Fang Zhao430.46