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    Real-Time Machine-Learning Based Crop/Weed Detection and Classification for Variable-Rate Spraying in Precision Agriculture
    (Ieee, 2020) Alam, Mansoor; Alam, Muhammad Shahab; Roman, Muhammad; Tufail, Muhammad; Khan, Muhammad Umer; Khan, Muhammad Tahir
    Traditional 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.
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    Ensemble Transfer Learning Using Maizeset: a Dataset for Weed and Maize Crop Recognition at Different Growth Stages
    (Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2024) Das, Zeynep Dilan; Alam, Muhammad Shahab; Khan, Muhammad Umer
    Maize holds significant importance as a staple food source globally. Increasing maize yield requires the effective removal of weeds from maize fields, as they pose a detrimental threat to the growth of maize plants. In recent years, there has been a drive towards Precision Agriculture (PA), involving the integration of farming methods with artificial intelligence and advanced automation techniques. In the realm of PA, deep learning techniques present a promising solution for addressing the complex challenge of classifying maize plants and weeds. In this work, a deep learning method based on transfer learning and ensemble techniques is developed. The proposed method is implementable on any number of existing CNN models irrespective of their architecture and complexity. The developed ensemble model is trained and tested on our custom-built dataset, namely MaizeSet, comprising 3330 images of maize plants and weeds under varying environmental conditions. The performance of the ensemble model is compared against individual pre-trained VGG16 and InceptionV3 models using two experiments: the identification of weeds and maize plants, and the identification of the various vegetative growth stages of maize plants. VGG16 attained an accuracy of 83% in Experiment 1 and 71% in Experiment 2, while InceptionV3 showcased improved performance, boasting an accuracy of 98% in Experiment 1 and 81% in Experiment 2. With the proposed ensemble approach, VGG16 when combined with InceptionV3, achieved an accuracy of 90% for Experiment 1 and 80% for Experiment 2. The findings demonstrate that integrating a suboptimal pre-defined classifier, specifically VGG16, with a more proficient model like InceptionV3, yields enhanced performance across various analytical metrics. This underscores the efficacy of ensemble techniques in the context of maize classification and analogous applications within the agricultural domain.