Automatic Counting of Wheat Spikes from Wheat Growth Images

Alharbi, Najmah, Zhou, Ji and Wang, Wenjia (2018) Automatic Counting of Wheat Spikes from Wheat Growth Images. In: 7th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods. SciTePress – Science and Technology Publications, PRT, pp. 346-355. ISBN 978-989-758-276-9

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Abstract

This study aims to develop an automated screening system that can estimate the number of wheat spikes (i.e. ears) from a given wheat plant image acquired after the flowering stage. The platform can be used to assist the dynamic estimation of wheat yield potential as well as grain yield based on wheat images captured by the CropQuant platform. Our proposed system framework comprises three main stages. Firstly, it transforms the wheat plant raw image data using colour index of vegetation extraction (CIVE) and then segments wheat ear regions from the image to reduce the influence of the background signals. Secondly, it detects wheat ears using Gabor filter banks and K-means clustering algorithm. Finally, it estimates the number of wheat spikes within extracted wheat spike region through a regression method. The framework is tested with a real-world dataset of wheat growth images equally distributed from flowering to ripening stages. The estimations of the wheat ears were benchmarked against the ground truth produced in this study by human manual counting. Our automatic counting system achieved an average accuracy of 90.7% with a standard deviation of 0.055, at a much faster speed than human experts and hence the system has a potential to be improved for agricultural applications on wheat growth studies in the future.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	wheat spikes counting,gabor filter,k-means,segmentation,regression analysis
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Computing Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Data Science and Statistics
Related URLs:	https://www.researchgate.net/publication...
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	12 Jan 2018 12:30
Last Modified:	16 Dec 2023 03:10
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/65922
DOI:	10.5220/0006580403460355

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