Browsing by Author "Khan, Muhammad Tahir"
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Conference Object Citation Count: 57Real-Time Machine-Learning Based Crop/Weed Detection and Classification for Variable-Rate Spraying in Precision Agriculture(Ieee, 2020) Khan, Muhammad Umer; Alam, Muhammad Shahab; Roman, Muhammad; Tufail, Muhammad; Khan, Muhammad Umer; Khan, Muhammad Tahir; Mechatronics EngineeringTraditional agrochemical spraying techniques often result in over or under-dosing. Over-dosing of spray chemicals is costly and pose a serious threat to the environment, whereas, under-dosing results in inefficient crop protection and thereby low crop yields. Therefore, in order to increase yields per acre and to protect crops from diseases, the exact amount of agrochemicals should be sprayed according to the field/crop requirements. This paper presents a real-time computer vision-based crop/weed detection system for variable-rate agrochemical spraying. Weed/crop detection and classification were performed through the Random Forest classifier. The classification model was first trained offline with our own created dataset and then deployed in the field for testing. Agrochemical spraying was done through application equipment consisting of a PWM-based fluid flow control system capable of spraying the desired amounts of agrochemical directed by the vision-based feedback system. The results obtained from several field tests demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed vision-based agrochemical spraying framework in real-time.Article Citation Count: 10TobSet: A New Tobacco Crop and Weeds Image Dataset and Its Utilization for Vision-Based Spraying by Agricultural Robots(Mdpi, 2022) Khan, Muhammad Umer; Alam, Mansoor; Güneş, Ahmet; Khan, Muhammad Umer; Gunes, Ahmet; Salah, Bashir; Khan, Muhammad Tahir; Mechatronics Engineering; Department of Mechatronics EngineeringSelective agrochemical spraying is a highly intricate task in precision agriculture. It requires spraying equipment to distinguish between crop (plants) and weeds and perform spray operations in real-time accordingly. The study presented in this paper entails the development of two convolutional neural networks (CNNs)-based vision frameworks, i.e., Faster R-CNN and YOLOv5, for the detection and classification of tobacco crops/weeds in real time. An essential requirement for CNN is to pre-train it well on a large dataset to distinguish crops from weeds, lately the same trained network can be utilized in real fields. We present an open access image dataset (TobSet) of tobacco plants and weeds acquired from local fields at different growth stages and varying lighting conditions. The TobSet comprises 7000 images of tobacco plants and 1000 images of weeds and bare soil, taken manually with digital cameras periodically over two months. Both vision frameworks are trained and then tested using this dataset. The Faster R-CNN-based vision framework manifested supremacy over the YOLOv5-based vision framework in terms of accuracy and robustness, whereas the YOLOv5-based vision framework demonstrated faster inference. Experimental evaluation of the system is performed in tobacco fields via a four-wheeled mobile robot sprayer controlled using a computer equipped with NVIDIA GTX 1650 GPU. The results demonstrate that Faster R-CNN and YOLOv5-based vision systems can analyze plants at 10 and 16 frames per second (fps) with a classification accuracy of 98% and 94%, respectively. Moreover, the precise smart application of pesticides with the proposed system offered a 52% reduction in pesticide usage by spotting the targets only, i.e., tobacco plants.