Supervised detection of Alternaria solani on ultra-high-resolution modified RGB UAV images

Jana Wieme; Sam Leroux; Simon Cool; Jan Pieters; Wouter Maes

doi:10.1117/12.2638911

28 October 2022 Supervised detection of Alternaria solani on ultra-high-resolution modified RGB UAV images

Jana Wieme, Sam Leroux, Simon Cool, Jan Pieters, Wouter Maes

Proceedings Volume 12262, Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology XXIV; 122620U (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2638911
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2022, Berlin, Germany

Abstract

Potato cultivation is regularly affected by Alternaria solani, a destructive foliar pathogen causing early blight, a premature defoliation of potato plants resulting in yield losses. Currently, Alternaria is treated through preventive application of chemical crop protection productions, following warnings based on weather predictions and visual observations. Automatic detection could make the mapping of early blight more accurate, reducing production losses and application of crop protection products. Current research explores the potential of deep learning of high resolution imagery within precision agriculture, mainly using supervised learning. However, available datasets are often limited in size and variation, which reduces the robustness of the developed models. Here, we present a convolutional network to detect Alternaria and evaluate the influence of sampling size, sampling balance and sampling accuracy on the model performance. These analyses are based on ultra-high-resolution datasets of modified RGB cameras obtained with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and collected over experimental in-field Alternaria trials. By using this varied dataset instead of a single-time dataset, higher accuracies are achieved. The method is relatively robust for imbalances of the training dataset. Further, we show that labeling quality plays a role, but that an error of up of to 20% of labeling is acceptable for good results. In conclusion, extra variability leads to more robust disease detection, desirable for in-field application.

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Jana Wieme, Sam Leroux, Simon Cool, Jan Pieters, and Wouter Maes "Supervised detection of Alternaria solani on ultra-high-resolution modified RGB UAV images", Proc. SPIE 12262, Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology XXIV, 122620U (28 October 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2638911

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