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ArticleFrontiers in plant science2022

A novel approach for estimating the flowering rate of litchi based on deep learning and UAV images.

Peiyi Lin, Denghui Li, Yuhang Jia, Yingyi Chen, Guangwen Huang, Hamza Elkhouchlaa, Zhongwei Yao, Zhengqi Zhou, Haobo Zhou, Jun Li and 1 more

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Peiyi LinCollege of Engineering, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China.
Denghui LiCollege of Engineering, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China.
Yuhang JiaCollege of Engineering, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China.
Yingyi ChenCollege of Engineering, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China.
Guangwen HuangCollege of Engineering, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China.
Hamza ElkhouchlaaCollege of Engineering, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China.
Zhongwei YaoCollege of Engineering, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China.
Zhengqi ZhouCollege of Engineering, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China.
Haobo ZhouCollege of Engineering, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China.
Jun LiCollege of Engineering, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China.
Huazhong LuGuangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, China.

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Litchi flowering management is an important link in litchi orchard management. Statistical litchi flowering rate data can provide an important reference for regulating the number of litchi flowers and directly determining the quality and yield of litchi fruit. At present, the statistical work regarding litchi flowering rates requires considerable labour costs. Therefore, this study aims at the statistical litchi flowering rate task, and a combination of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images and computer vision technology is proposed to count the numbers of litchi flower clusters and flushes in a complex natural environment to improve the efficiency of litchi flowering rate estimation. First, RGB images of litchi canopies at the flowering stage are collected by a UAV. After performing image preprocessing, a dataset is established, and two types of objects in the images, namely, flower clusters and flushes, are manually labelled. Second, by comparing the pretraining and testing results obtained when setting different training parameters for the YOLOv4 model, the optimal parameter combination is determined. The YOLOv4 model trained with the optimal combination of parameters tests best on the test set, at which time the mean average precision (mAP) is 87.87%. The detection time required for a single image is 0.043 s. Finally, aiming at the two kinds of targets (flower clusters and flushes) on 8 litchi trees in a real orchard, a model for estimating the numbers of flower clusters and flushes on a single litchi tree is constructed by matching the identified number of targets with the actual number of targets

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convolutional neural networkimage analysislitchi flowering rateobject detectionUAV images

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