Detection of breakage and impurity ratios for raw sugarcane based on estimation model and MDSC-DeepLabv3+

Broken cane and impurities such as top, leaf in harvested raw sugarcane significantly influence the yield of the sugar manufacturing process. It is crucial to determine the breakage and impurity ratios for assessing the quality and price of raw sugarcane in sugar refineries. However, the traditional...

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Main Authors: Xin Li, Zhigang Zhang, Shengping Lv, Tairan Liang, Jianmin Zou, Taotao Ning, Chunyu Jiang
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Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2023.1283230/full
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author Xin Li
Zhigang Zhang
Shengping Lv
Tairan Liang
Jianmin Zou
Taotao Ning
Chunyu Jiang
author_facet Xin Li
Zhigang Zhang
Shengping Lv
Tairan Liang
Jianmin Zou
Taotao Ning
Chunyu Jiang
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description Broken cane and impurities such as top, leaf in harvested raw sugarcane significantly influence the yield of the sugar manufacturing process. It is crucial to determine the breakage and impurity ratios for assessing the quality and price of raw sugarcane in sugar refineries. However, the traditional manual sampling approach for detecting breakage and impurity ratios suffers from subjectivity, low efficiency, and result discrepancies. To address this problem, a novel approach combining an estimation model and semantic segmentation method for breakage and impurity ratios detection was developed. A machine vision-based image acquisition platform was designed, and custom image and mass datasets of cane, broken cane, top, and leaf were created. For cane, broken cane, top, and leaf, normal fitting of mean surface densities based on pixel information and measured mass was conducted. An estimation model for the mass of each class and the breakage and impurity ratios was established using the mean surface density and pixels. Furthermore, the MDSC-DeepLabv3+ model was developed to accurately and efficiently segment pixels of the four classes of objects. This model integrates improved MobileNetv2, atrous spatial pyramid pooling with deepwise separable convolution and strip pooling module, and coordinate attention mechanism to achieve high segmentation accuracy, deployability, and efficiency simultaneously. Experimental results based on the custom image and mass datasets showed that the estimation model achieved high accuracy for breakage and impurity ratios between estimated and measured value with R2 values of 0.976 and 0.968, respectively. MDSC-DeepLabv3+ outperformed the compared models with mPA and mIoU of 97.55% and 94.84%, respectively. Compared to the baseline DeepLabv3+, MDSC-DeepLabv3+ demonstrated significant improvements in mPA and mIoU and reduced Params, FLOPs, and inference time, making it suitable for deployment on edge devices and real-time inference. The average relative errors of breakage and impurity ratios between estimated and measured values were 11.3% and 6.5%, respectively. Overall, this novel approach enables high-precision, efficient, and intelligent detection of breakage and impurity ratios for raw sugarcane.
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spelling doaj.art-c9bc81aaf81347af82498662cac029a62023-11-09T16:00:55ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Plant Science1664-462X2023-11-011410.3389/fpls.2023.12832301283230Detection of breakage and impurity ratios for raw sugarcane based on estimation model and MDSC-DeepLabv3+Xin LiZhigang ZhangShengping LvTairan LiangJianmin ZouTaotao NingChunyu JiangBroken cane and impurities such as top, leaf in harvested raw sugarcane significantly influence the yield of the sugar manufacturing process. It is crucial to determine the breakage and impurity ratios for assessing the quality and price of raw sugarcane in sugar refineries. However, the traditional manual sampling approach for detecting breakage and impurity ratios suffers from subjectivity, low efficiency, and result discrepancies. To address this problem, a novel approach combining an estimation model and semantic segmentation method for breakage and impurity ratios detection was developed. A machine vision-based image acquisition platform was designed, and custom image and mass datasets of cane, broken cane, top, and leaf were created. For cane, broken cane, top, and leaf, normal fitting of mean surface densities based on pixel information and measured mass was conducted. An estimation model for the mass of each class and the breakage and impurity ratios was established using the mean surface density and pixels. Furthermore, the MDSC-DeepLabv3+ model was developed to accurately and efficiently segment pixels of the four classes of objects. This model integrates improved MobileNetv2, atrous spatial pyramid pooling with deepwise separable convolution and strip pooling module, and coordinate attention mechanism to achieve high segmentation accuracy, deployability, and efficiency simultaneously. Experimental results based on the custom image and mass datasets showed that the estimation model achieved high accuracy for breakage and impurity ratios between estimated and measured value with R2 values of 0.976 and 0.968, respectively. MDSC-DeepLabv3+ outperformed the compared models with mPA and mIoU of 97.55% and 94.84%, respectively. Compared to the baseline DeepLabv3+, MDSC-DeepLabv3+ demonstrated significant improvements in mPA and mIoU and reduced Params, FLOPs, and inference time, making it suitable for deployment on edge devices and real-time inference. The average relative errors of breakage and impurity ratios between estimated and measured values were 11.3% and 6.5%, respectively. Overall, this novel approach enables high-precision, efficient, and intelligent detection of breakage and impurity ratios for raw sugarcane.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2023.1283230/fullraw sugarcanebreakage ratioimpurity ratioestimation modelMDSC-DeepLabv3+
spellingShingle Xin Li
Zhigang Zhang
Shengping Lv
Tairan Liang
Jianmin Zou
Taotao Ning
Chunyu Jiang
Detection of breakage and impurity ratios for raw sugarcane based on estimation model and MDSC-DeepLabv3+
Frontiers in Plant Science
raw sugarcane
breakage ratio
impurity ratio
estimation model
MDSC-DeepLabv3+
title Detection of breakage and impurity ratios for raw sugarcane based on estimation model and MDSC-DeepLabv3+
title_full Detection of breakage and impurity ratios for raw sugarcane based on estimation model and MDSC-DeepLabv3+
title_fullStr Detection of breakage and impurity ratios for raw sugarcane based on estimation model and MDSC-DeepLabv3+
title_full_unstemmed Detection of breakage and impurity ratios for raw sugarcane based on estimation model and MDSC-DeepLabv3+
title_short Detection of breakage and impurity ratios for raw sugarcane based on estimation model and MDSC-DeepLabv3+
title_sort detection of breakage and impurity ratios for raw sugarcane based on estimation model and mdsc deeplabv3
topic raw sugarcane
breakage ratio
impurity ratio
estimation model
MDSC-DeepLabv3+
url https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2023.1283230/full
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