Crop pest detection by three-scale convolutional neural network with attention

Crop pests seriously affect the yield and quality of crop. To timely and accurately control crop pests is particularly crucial for crop security, quality of life and a stable agricultural economy. Crop pest detection in field is an essential step to control the pests. The existing convolutional neur...

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Main Authors: Xuqi Wang, Shanwen Zhang, Xianfeng Wang, Cong Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10237663/?tool=EBI
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author Xuqi Wang
Shanwen Zhang
Xianfeng Wang
Cong Xu
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Shanwen Zhang
Xianfeng Wang
Cong Xu
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description Crop pests seriously affect the yield and quality of crop. To timely and accurately control crop pests is particularly crucial for crop security, quality of life and a stable agricultural economy. Crop pest detection in field is an essential step to control the pests. The existing convolutional neural network (CNN) based pest detection methods are not satisfactory for small pest recognition and detection in field because the pests are various with different colors, shapes and poses. A three-scale CNN with attention (TSCNNA) model is constructed for crop pest detection by adding the channel attention and spatial mechanisms are introduced into CNN. TSCNNA can improve the interest of CNN for pest detection with different sizes under complicated background, and enlarge the receptive field of CNN, so as to improve the accuracy of pest detection. Experiments are carried out on the image set of common crop pests, and the precision is 93.16%, which is 5.1% and 3.7% higher than ICNN and VGG16, respectively. The results show that the proposed method can achieve both high speed and high accuracy of crop pest detection. This proposed method has certain practical significance of real-time crop pest control in the field.
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spelling doaj.art-11b6f1ec3b76483ba10709bc843bd8aa2023-06-06T05:31:35ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032023-01-01186Crop pest detection by three-scale convolutional neural network with attentionXuqi WangShanwen ZhangXianfeng WangCong XuCrop pests seriously affect the yield and quality of crop. To timely and accurately control crop pests is particularly crucial for crop security, quality of life and a stable agricultural economy. Crop pest detection in field is an essential step to control the pests. The existing convolutional neural network (CNN) based pest detection methods are not satisfactory for small pest recognition and detection in field because the pests are various with different colors, shapes and poses. A three-scale CNN with attention (TSCNNA) model is constructed for crop pest detection by adding the channel attention and spatial mechanisms are introduced into CNN. TSCNNA can improve the interest of CNN for pest detection with different sizes under complicated background, and enlarge the receptive field of CNN, so as to improve the accuracy of pest detection. Experiments are carried out on the image set of common crop pests, and the precision is 93.16%, which is 5.1% and 3.7% higher than ICNN and VGG16, respectively. The results show that the proposed method can achieve both high speed and high accuracy of crop pest detection. This proposed method has certain practical significance of real-time crop pest control in the field.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10237663/?tool=EBI
spellingShingle Xuqi Wang
Shanwen Zhang
Xianfeng Wang
Cong Xu
Crop pest detection by three-scale convolutional neural network with attention
PLoS ONE
title Crop pest detection by three-scale convolutional neural network with attention
title_full Crop pest detection by three-scale convolutional neural network with attention
title_fullStr Crop pest detection by three-scale convolutional neural network with attention
title_full_unstemmed Crop pest detection by three-scale convolutional neural network with attention
title_short Crop pest detection by three-scale convolutional neural network with attention
title_sort crop pest detection by three scale convolutional neural network with attention
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10237663/?tool=EBI
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