An optimized YOLO-based object detection model for crop harvesting system

The adoption of automated crop harvesting system based on machine vision may improve productivity and optimize the operational cost. The scope of this study is to obtain visual information at the plantation which is crucial in developing an intelligent automated crop harvesting system. This paper ai...

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Main Authors: Junos, Mohamad Haniff, Mohd Khairuddin, Anis Salwa, Thannirmalai, Subbiah, Dahari, Mahidzal
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spelling my.um.eprints.267812022-04-14T04:27:06Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/26781/ An optimized YOLO-based object detection model for crop harvesting system Junos, Mohamad Haniff Mohd Khairuddin, Anis Salwa Thannirmalai, Subbiah Dahari, Mahidzal TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering The adoption of automated crop harvesting system based on machine vision may improve productivity and optimize the operational cost. The scope of this study is to obtain visual information at the plantation which is crucial in developing an intelligent automated crop harvesting system. This paper aims to develop an automatic detection system with high accuracy performance, low computational cost and lightweight model. Considering the advantages of YOLOv3 tiny, an optimized YOLOv3 tiny network namely YOLO-P is proposed to detect and localize three objects at palm oil plantation which include fresh fruit bunch, grabber and palm tree under various environment conditions. The proposed YOLO-P model incorporated lightweight backbone based on densely connected neural network, multi-scale detection architecture and optimized anchor box size. The experimental results demonstrated that the proposed YOLO-P model achieved good mean average precision and F1 score of 98.68% and 0.97 respectively. Besides, the proposed model performed faster training process and generated lightweight model of 76 MB. The proposed model was also tested to identify fresh fruit bunch of various maturities with accuracy of 98.91%. The comprehensive experimental results show that the proposed YOLO-P model can effectively perform robust and accurate detection at the palm oil plantation. Wiley 2021-07 Article PeerReviewed Junos, Mohamad Haniff and Mohd Khairuddin, Anis Salwa and Thannirmalai, Subbiah and Dahari, Mahidzal (2021) An optimized YOLO-based object detection model for crop harvesting system. IET Image Processing, 15 (9). pp. 2112-2125. ISSN 1751-9659, DOI https://doi.org/10.1049/ipr2.12181 <https://doi.org/10.1049/ipr2.12181>. 10.1049/ipr2.12181
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topic TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
spellingShingle TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Junos, Mohamad Haniff
Mohd Khairuddin, Anis Salwa
Thannirmalai, Subbiah
Dahari, Mahidzal
An optimized YOLO-based object detection model for crop harvesting system
description The adoption of automated crop harvesting system based on machine vision may improve productivity and optimize the operational cost. The scope of this study is to obtain visual information at the plantation which is crucial in developing an intelligent automated crop harvesting system. This paper aims to develop an automatic detection system with high accuracy performance, low computational cost and lightweight model. Considering the advantages of YOLOv3 tiny, an optimized YOLOv3 tiny network namely YOLO-P is proposed to detect and localize three objects at palm oil plantation which include fresh fruit bunch, grabber and palm tree under various environment conditions. The proposed YOLO-P model incorporated lightweight backbone based on densely connected neural network, multi-scale detection architecture and optimized anchor box size. The experimental results demonstrated that the proposed YOLO-P model achieved good mean average precision and F1 score of 98.68% and 0.97 respectively. Besides, the proposed model performed faster training process and generated lightweight model of 76 MB. The proposed model was also tested to identify fresh fruit bunch of various maturities with accuracy of 98.91%. The comprehensive experimental results show that the proposed YOLO-P model can effectively perform robust and accurate detection at the palm oil plantation.
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author Junos, Mohamad Haniff
Mohd Khairuddin, Anis Salwa
Thannirmalai, Subbiah
Dahari, Mahidzal
author_facet Junos, Mohamad Haniff
Mohd Khairuddin, Anis Salwa
Thannirmalai, Subbiah
Dahari, Mahidzal
author_sort Junos, Mohamad Haniff
title An optimized YOLO-based object detection model for crop harvesting system
title_short An optimized YOLO-based object detection model for crop harvesting system
title_full An optimized YOLO-based object detection model for crop harvesting system
title_fullStr An optimized YOLO-based object detection model for crop harvesting system
title_full_unstemmed An optimized YOLO-based object detection model for crop harvesting system
title_sort optimized yolo-based object detection model for crop harvesting system
publisher Wiley
publishDate 2021
url http://eprints.um.edu.my/26781/
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