Image-Based Sorghum Head Counting When You Only Look Once

24 Sep 2020  ·  Lawrence Mosley, Hieu Pham, Yogesh Bansal, Eric Hare ·

Modern trends in digital agriculture have seen a shift towards artificial intelligence for crop quality assessment and yield estimation. In this work, we document how a parameter tuned single-shot object detection algorithm can be used to identify and count sorghum head from aerial drone images. Our approach involves a novel exploratory analysis that identified key structural elements of the sorghum images and motivated the selection of parameter-tuned anchor boxes that contributed significantly to performance. These insights led to the development of a deep learning model that outperformed the baseline model and achieved an out-of-sample mean average precision of 0.95.

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