Title
Deep Learning Applied to Phenotyping of Biomass in Forages with UAV-Based RGB Imagery.
Abstract
Monitoring biomass of forages in experimental plots and livestock farms is a time-consuming, expensive, and biased task. Thus, non-destructive, accurate, precise, and quick phenotyping strategies for biomass yield are needed. To promote high-throughput phenotyping in forages, we propose and evaluate the use of deep learning-based methods and UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle)-based RGB images to estimate the value of biomass yield by different genotypes of the forage grass speciesPanicum maximumJacq. Experiments were conducted in the Brazilian Cerrado with 110 genotypes with three replications, totaling 330 plots. Two regression models based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) named AlexNet and ResNet18 were evaluated, and compared to VGGNet-adopted in previous work in the same thematic for other grass species. The predictions returned by the models reached a correlation of 0.88 and a mean absolute error of 12.98% using AlexNet considering pre-training and data augmentation. This proposal may contribute to forage biomass estimation in breeding populations and livestock areas, as well as to reduce the labor in the field.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.3390/s20174802
SENSORS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Convolutional Neural Network,biomass yield,data augmentation,phenotyping
Journal
20
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
17
1424-8220
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
15