Title
A deep learning-based approach for detecting plant organs from digitized herbarium specimen images
Abstract
Herbarium specimens are excellent sources of botanical information to facilitate understanding and monitoring the evolution of plants and their effects on global climate change. Globally, many herbaria have undertaken digitization projects of herbarium specimens to preserve them and make them accessible in online repositories to botanists and ecologists. Automated detection of plant organs such as plant leaves, buds, flowers, and fruits on the digitized herbarium specimen images provides valuable information in various scientific contexts. We developed a deep learning approach based on the refined YOLO-V3 approach to detect plant organs within the digitized herbarium specimen images effectively. The proposed approach combines ResNet and DenseNet architectures to improve feature extraction capabilities. Also, a new scale of feature map is added to the existing scales to address the problem of YOLO-V3's low performance in detecting small plant organs. The experimental results demonstrate that our proposed approach can detect organs of different sizes within different specimens, where the precision and recall reached 94.2% and 95.5%, respectively.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1016/j.ecoinf.2022.101590
ECOLOGICAL INFORMATICS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Herbarium specimens, Plant organ detection, Deep learning, Digitization, YOLO-V3, ResNet, DenseNet
Journal
69
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1574-9541
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Abdelaziz Triki101.35
Bassem Bouaziz200.34
Walid Mahdi311625.49