Modeling of the Bulk Tobacco Flue-Curing Process Using a Deep Learning-Based Method

The research of the bulk tobacco flue-curing process is helpful to model the intelligent bulk curing system, which is designed to implement the curing procedure without manual operation. An intelligent bulk curing method based on the convolutional neural network (CNN) named TobaccoNet was proposed,...

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Main Authors: Juan Wu, Simon X. Yang
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Published: IEEE 2021-01-01
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description The research of the bulk tobacco flue-curing process is helpful to model the intelligent bulk curing system, which is designed to implement the curing procedure without manual operation. An intelligent bulk curing method based on the convolutional neural network (CNN) named TobaccoNet was proposed, which could set the target dry-bulb temperature (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$T_{\mathrm {D}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>) and the target wet-bulb temperature (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$T_{\mathrm {W}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>) of the bulk curing barn according to the tobacco leaves image. The performance of the TobaccoNet is compared with the traditional manual image feature extraction method, the stacked-sparse-autoencoder (SSAE)-based deep learning method, and the other two methods applied in related references. The test results show that TobaccoNet outperforms the comparison methods in predicting <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$T_{\mathrm {D}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$T_{\mathrm {W}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>. Specifically, the correlation coefficient reaches 0.9965 and 0.9683, the mean relative error is 1.62&#x0025; and 1.77&#x0025;, and the root mean squared error achieves 1.061 &#x00B0;C and 0.8581 &#x00B0;C respectively. The promising results demonstrate that TobaccoNet is effective and reliable for modeling the intelligent bulk tobacco flue-curing process. The influence of different CNN structures on the prediction accuracy of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$T_{\mathrm {D}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$T_{\mathrm {W}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> was analyzed. From the perspective of the computational complexity and the prediction performance, the proposed sequential CNN structure is more suitable for analyzing bulk tobacco curing in this study.
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spelling doaj.art-6df19339fb4742cba4bb441de20206122022-12-21T18:22:22ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362021-01-01914042414043610.1109/ACCESS.2021.31195449568877Modeling of the Bulk Tobacco Flue-Curing Process Using a Deep Learning-Based MethodJuan Wu0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7241-2771Simon X. Yang1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6888-7993School of Microelectronics and Communication Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, ChinaAdvanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems (ARIS) Laboratory, School of Engineering, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, CanadaThe research of the bulk tobacco flue-curing process is helpful to model the intelligent bulk curing system, which is designed to implement the curing procedure without manual operation. An intelligent bulk curing method based on the convolutional neural network (CNN) named TobaccoNet was proposed, which could set the target dry-bulb temperature (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$T_{\mathrm {D}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>) and the target wet-bulb temperature (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$T_{\mathrm {W}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>) of the bulk curing barn according to the tobacco leaves image. The performance of the TobaccoNet is compared with the traditional manual image feature extraction method, the stacked-sparse-autoencoder (SSAE)-based deep learning method, and the other two methods applied in related references. The test results show that TobaccoNet outperforms the comparison methods in predicting <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$T_{\mathrm {D}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$T_{\mathrm {W}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>. Specifically, the correlation coefficient reaches 0.9965 and 0.9683, the mean relative error is 1.62&#x0025; and 1.77&#x0025;, and the root mean squared error achieves 1.061 &#x00B0;C and 0.8581 &#x00B0;C respectively. The promising results demonstrate that TobaccoNet is effective and reliable for modeling the intelligent bulk tobacco flue-curing process. The influence of different CNN structures on the prediction accuracy of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$T_{\mathrm {D}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$T_{\mathrm {W}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> was analyzed. From the perspective of the computational complexity and the prediction performance, the proposed sequential CNN structure is more suitable for analyzing bulk tobacco curing in this study.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9568877/Convolutional neural networkbulk tobacco flue-curingtobacco leavesdeep learning
spellingShingle Juan Wu
Simon X. Yang
Modeling of the Bulk Tobacco Flue-Curing Process Using a Deep Learning-Based Method
IEEE Access
Convolutional neural network
bulk tobacco flue-curing
tobacco leaves
deep learning
title Modeling of the Bulk Tobacco Flue-Curing Process Using a Deep Learning-Based Method
title_full Modeling of the Bulk Tobacco Flue-Curing Process Using a Deep Learning-Based Method
title_fullStr Modeling of the Bulk Tobacco Flue-Curing Process Using a Deep Learning-Based Method
title_full_unstemmed Modeling of the Bulk Tobacco Flue-Curing Process Using a Deep Learning-Based Method
title_short Modeling of the Bulk Tobacco Flue-Curing Process Using a Deep Learning-Based Method
title_sort modeling of the bulk tobacco flue curing process using a deep learning based method
topic Convolutional neural network
bulk tobacco flue-curing
tobacco leaves
deep learning
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9568877/
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