Matteo Rizzo , Matteo Marcuzzo , Alessandro Zangari , Andrea Gasparetto , Andrea Albarelli
{"title":"Fruit ripeness classification: A survey","authors":"Matteo Rizzo , Matteo Marcuzzo , Alessandro Zangari , Andrea Gasparetto , Andrea Albarelli","doi":"10.1016/j.aiia.2023.02.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aiia.2023.02.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Fruit is a key crop in worldwide agriculture feeding millions of people. The standard supply chain of fruit products involves quality checks to guarantee freshness, taste, and, most of all, safety. An important factor that determines fruit quality is its stage of ripening. This is usually manually classified by field experts, making it a labor-intensive and error-prone process. Thus, there is an arising need for automation in fruit ripeness classification. Many automatic methods have been proposed that employ a variety of feature descriptors for the food item to be graded. Machine learning and deep learning techniques dominate the top-performing methods. Furthermore, deep learning can operate on raw data and thus relieve the users from having to compute complex engineered features, which are often crop-specific. In this survey, we review the latest methods proposed in the literature to automatize fruit ripeness classification, highlighting the most common feature descriptors they operate on.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":52814,"journal":{"name":"Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture","volume":"7 ","pages":"Pages 44-57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50189222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lightweight convolutional neural network models for semantic segmentation of in-field cotton bolls","authors":"Naseeb Singh, V. Tewari, P. Biswas, L. Dhruw","doi":"10.1016/j.aiia.2023.03.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aiia.2023.03.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52814,"journal":{"name":"Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"54191502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Salim Khazem , Antoine Richard , Jeremy Fix , Cédric Pradalier
{"title":"Deep learning for the detection of semantic features in tree X-ray CT scans","authors":"Salim Khazem , Antoine Richard , Jeremy Fix , Cédric Pradalier","doi":"10.1016/j.aiia.2022.12.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aiia.2022.12.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>According to the industry, the value of wood logs is heavily influenced by their internal structure, particularly the distribution of knots within the trees. Nowadays, CT scanners combined with classical computer vision approach are the most common tool for obtaining reliable and accurate images of the interior structure of trees. Knowing where the tree semantic features, especially knots, contours and centers are within a tree could improve the efficiency of the overall tree industry by minimizing waste and enhancing the quality of wood-log by-products. However, this requires to automatically process the CT-scanner images so as to extract the different elements such as tree centerline, knot localization and log contour, in a robust and efficient manner. In this paper, we propose an effective methodology based on deep learning for performing these different tasks by processing CT-scanner images with deep convolutional neural networks. To meet this objective, three end-to-end trainable pipelines are proposed. The first pipeline is focused on centers detection using CNNs architecture with a regression head, the second and the third one address contour estimation and knot detection as a binary segmentation task based on an Encoder-Decoder architecture. The different architectures are tested on several tree species. With these experiments, we demonstrate that our approaches can be used to extract the different elements of trees in a precise manner while preserving good performances of robustness. The main objective was to demonstrate that methods based on deep learning might be used and have a relevant potential for segmentation and regression on CT-scans of tree trunks.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":52814,"journal":{"name":"Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture","volume":"7 ","pages":"Pages 13-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41754236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improving the non-destructive maturity classification model for durian fruit using near-infrared spectroscopy","authors":"Sirirak Ditcharoen , Panmanas Sirisomboon , Khwantri Saengprachatanarug , Arthit Phuphaphud , Ronnarit Rittiron , Anupun Terdwongworakul , Chayuttapong Malai , Chirawan Saenphon , Lalita Panduangnate , Jetsada Posom","doi":"10.1016/j.aiia.2023.02.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aiia.2023.02.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The maturity state of durian fruit is a key indicator of quality before trading. This research aims to improve the near-infrared (NIR) model for classifying the maturity stage of durian fruit using a completely non-destructive measurement. Both NIR spectrometers were investigated: the short wavelength NIR (SWNIR) ranging from 450 to 1000 nm and long wavelength NIR (LWNIR) ranging from 860 to 1750 nm. The samples collected for experimentation consisted of four stages: immaturity, prematurity, maturity, and ripe. Each fruit was scanned at the rind position on the main fertile lobe (header, middle, and tail) and stem. The classification models were developed using three supervised machine learning algorithms: linear discriminant analysis (LDA), support vector machine (SVM), and K-Nearest neighbours (KNN). The analysis results revealed that the use of durian rind spectra only obtained between 83.15% and 88.04% accuracy for the LWNIR spectrometer, while the SWNIR spectrometer provided 64.73 to 93.77% accuracy. The performance of model increases when developing with combination between rind and stem spectra. The LDA model developed using a combination of rind and stem spectra provided the greatest efficiency, exhibiting 97.28% and 100% accuracy for LWNIR and SWNIR spectrometers, respectively. The LDA model is therefore recommended for obtaining spectra from smoothing moving average (MA) + baseline of rind position and when used in combination with the MA + standard normal variance (SNV) of stem spectra. The NIR spectroscopy indicated high potential for non-destructive estimation of the durian maturity stage. This process could be used for quality control in the durian export industry to solve the problem of unripe durian being mixed with ripe fruit.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":52814,"journal":{"name":"Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture","volume":"7 ","pages":"Pages 35-43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50189221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hongkun Liu , YongLin Ren , Huanhuan Chu , Hu Shan , Kok Wai Wong
{"title":"A fuzzy risk assessment model used for assessing the introduction of African swine fever into Australia from overseas","authors":"Hongkun Liu , YongLin Ren , Huanhuan Chu , Hu Shan , Kok Wai Wong","doi":"10.1016/j.aiia.2023.02.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aiia.2023.02.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>African swine fever (ASF) is a contagious and lethal hemorrhagic disease with a high case fatality rate. Since 2007, ASF has been spreading into many countries, especially in Europe and Asia. Given that there is no effective vaccine and treatment to deal with ASF, prevention is an important way for a country to avoid the effects of the virus. Australia is currently ASF-free but the disease has been reported in many neighboring countries, such as Indonesia, Timor-Leste, and Papua New Guinea. Therefore, it is necessary for Australia to maintain hyper-vigilance to prevent the ASF introduction. In this paper, we propose the use of fuzzy concepts to establish a fuzzy risk assessment model to predict the ASF introduction risk in Australia. From the analysis, the international passengers (IP) and international import trade (IIT) are concluded as the two main ASF introduction factors based on transmission features and past research. From the established fuzzy risk assessment model based on the analysis of the 2019 and 2020 data, the risks of ASF introduction into Australia are considered to be low. The model further deduced that the Asian region was the major source of potential risks. Finally, in order to validate the effectiveness of the established fuzzy risk assessment model, the qualitative data from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs of the United Kingdom was used. From the validation results, it has shown that the results were consistent when the same data is adopted, and thus proved that the functionality of the established fuzzy risk assessment model for assessing the risk in Australia.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":52814,"journal":{"name":"Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture","volume":"7 ","pages":"Pages 27-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43993437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"t-SNE: A study on reducing the dimensionality of hyperspectral data for the regression problem of estimating oenological parameters","authors":"Rui Silva , Pedro Melo-Pinto","doi":"10.1016/j.aiia.2023.02.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aiia.2023.02.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In recent years there is a growing importance in using machine learning techniques to improve procedures in precision agriculture: in this work we perform a study on models capable of predicting oenological parameters from hyperspectral images of wine grape berries, a specially relevant topic to boost production tasks for winemakers. Specifically, we explore the capabilities of a novel technique mostly used for visualization, t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE), for reducing the dimensionality of the highly complex hyperspectral data and compare its performance with Principal Component Analysis (PCA) method, which despite the introduction of many nonlinear dimensionality reduction techniques over the years, had achieved the best results for real-world data across several studies in literature. Additionally we explore the potential of Kernel t-SNE, an extension to the t-SNE method that allows for the usage of the technique in streaming data or online scenarios. Our results show that, in a direct comparison, t-SNE achieves better metrics than PCA for most of the data sets in this work and that the regressor (Support Vector Regression, SVR) performs better with the t-SNE reduced features as inputs, accomplishing better predictions with lower error rates. Comparing the results with current literature, our shallow learning model paired with t-SNE achieves either better or on par results than those reported, even competing with more advanced models that use deep learning techniques, which should propel the introduction of t-SNE in more studies that require dimensionality reduction.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":52814,"journal":{"name":"Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture","volume":"7 ","pages":"Pages 58-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41572754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nabila Husna Shabrina , Ryukin Aranta Lika , Siwi Indarti
{"title":"Deep learning models for automatic identification of plant-parasitic nematode","authors":"Nabila Husna Shabrina , Ryukin Aranta Lika , Siwi Indarti","doi":"10.1016/j.aiia.2022.12.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aiia.2022.12.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Plant-parasitic nematodes cause various diseases that can be fatal to the infected plants. It causes losses to the agricultural industry, such as crop failure and poor crop quality. Developing an accurate nematode classification system is vital for pest identification and control. Deep learning classification techniques can help speed up Nematode identification as it can perform tasks directly from images. In the present study, four state-of-the-art deep learning models (ResNet101v2, CoAtNet-0, Effi- cientNetV2B0, and EfficientNetV2M) were evaluated in plant-parasitic nematode classification from microscopic image. The models were trained using a combination of three different optimizers (Adam, SGD, dan RMSProp) and several data augmentation with image transformations, such as image flip, blurring, noise addition, brightness, and contrast adjustment. The performance of the trained models was varied. Regarding test accuracy, EfficientNetV2B0 and EfficientNetV2M using RMSProp and brightness augmentation give the best result of 97.94% However, the overall performance of EfficientNetV2M was superior, with 98.66% mean class accuracy, 97.99%F1 score, 98.26% average precision, and 97.94% average recall.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":52814,"journal":{"name":"Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture","volume":"7 ","pages":"Pages 1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45799752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of agricultural IoT technology","authors":"Jinyuan Xu , Baoxing Gu , Guangzhao Tian","doi":"10.1016/j.aiia.2022.01.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aiia.2022.01.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Agricultural Internet of Things (IoT) has brought new changes to agricultural production. It not only increases agricultural output but can also effectively improve the quality of agricultural products, reduce labor costs, increase farmers' income, and truly realize agricultural modernization and intelligence. This paper systematically summarizes the research status of agricultural IoT. Firstly, the current situation of agricultural IoT is illustrated and its system architecture is summarized. Then, the five key technologies of agricultural IoT are discussed in detail. Next, applications of agricultural IoT in five representative fields are introduced. Finally, the problems existing in agricultural IoT are analyzed and a forecast is given of the future development of agricultural IoT.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":52814,"journal":{"name":"Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture","volume":"6 ","pages":"Pages 10-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589721722000010/pdfft?md5=275e83aefc903613e884982969de9e88&pid=1-s2.0-S2589721722000010-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46314466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jing Chen , Chunjiang Zhao , Glyn Jones , Hao Yang , Zhenhong Li , Guijun Yang , Liping Chen , Yongchang Wu
{"title":"Effect and economic benefit of precision seeding and laser land leveling for winter wheat in the middle of China","authors":"Jing Chen , Chunjiang Zhao , Glyn Jones , Hao Yang , Zhenhong Li , Guijun Yang , Liping Chen , Yongchang Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.aiia.2021.11.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aiia.2021.11.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Rapid socio-economic changes in China, such as land conversion and urbanization, are creating new scopes for the application of precision agriculture (PA).An experiment to assess the economic benefits of two precision agriculture methods was applied for one year – precision seeding and precision seeding with land leveling. Whilst the results for this were positive, of itself it did not provide evidence of longer terms gains. The costs of land leveling are accrued in a single year but the benefits could carry over into subsequent years. Thus, in this case if the PA method provides carry over benefits to future years, the economic assessment would incorrectly assign all the costs to a single year of benefits i.e.the benefit-cost ratio would be underestimated. To gauge whether there was carry over benefits in future years we looked at NDVI and GUI as proxies for future year benefits. For the single year experiment, our results showed that: (1) Winter wheat yield was increased 23.2% through the integration of precision seeding and laser leveling technologies.(2) Both the single technology and the integrated technologies significant reduced the concentration of soil ammonium nitrogen at the depths of 60 cm; (3) The benefit/cost ratio's of the treatments exceeded that of the baseline by approximately 10% which translated to an increase of several hundred US$ per hectare. The NDVI analysis showed that the effect of laser land leveling could last to the next two years. When considering the multi-year impact of land leveling, the benefit/cost ratio of PSLL will increase to 23.5% and 22.9% with and without laser land leveling subsidies. Making clear the economic benefits of using PA technologies will likely promote application of the technologies in the region.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":52814,"journal":{"name":"Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture","volume":"6 ","pages":"Pages 1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589721721000349/pdfft?md5=0c5c4f99c9af286d04dc0a8a2a5766e3&pid=1-s2.0-S2589721721000349-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46124768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nutrient optimization for plant growth in Aquaponic irrigation using Machine Learning for small training datasets","authors":"Sambandh Bhusan Dhal , Muthukumar Bagavathiannan , Ulisses Braga-Neto , Stavros Kalafatis","doi":"10.1016/j.aiia.2022.05.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aiia.2022.05.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>With the recent trends in urban agriculture and climate change, there is an emerging need for alternative plant culture techniques where dependence on soil can be eliminated. Hydroponic and aquaponic growth techniques have proven to be viable alternatives, but the lack of efficient and optimal practices for irrigation and nutrient supply limits its applications on a large-scale commercial basis. The main purpose of this research was to develop statistical methods and Machine Learning algorithms to regulate nutrient concentrations in aquaponic irrigation water based on plant needs, for achieving optimal plant growth and promoting broader adoption of aquaponic culture on a commercial scale. One of the key challenges to developing these algorithms is the sparsity of data which requires the use of Bolstered error estimation approaches. In this paper, several linear and non-linear algorithms trained on relatively small datasets using Bolstered error estimation techniques were evaluated, for selecting the best method in making decisions regarding the regulation of nutrients in hydroponic environments. After repeated tests on the dataset, it was decided that Semi-Bolstered Resubstitution Error estimation technique works best in our case using Linear Support Vector Machine as the classifier with the value of penalty parameter set to one. A set of recommended rules have been prescribed as a Decision Support System, using the output of the Machine Learning algorithm, which have been tested against the results of the baseline model. Further, the positive impact of the recommended nutrient concentrationson plant growth in aquaponic environments has been elaborately discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":52814,"journal":{"name":"Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture","volume":"6 ","pages":"Pages 68-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589721722000058/pdfft?md5=88b4d1d7657cf1e51d82120cbd2cc4e8&pid=1-s2.0-S2589721722000058-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91954151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}