Crop Classification from Drone Imagery Based on Lightweight Semantic Segmentation Methods

文献类型： 外文期刊

第一作者： Zheng, Zuojun

作者： Zheng, Zuojun;Yuan, Jianghao;Zheng, Zuojun;Yuan, Jianghao;Yao, Wei;Guo, Leifeng;Yuan, Jianghao;Yao, Hongxun;Liu, Qingzhi

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关键词： precision agriculture; UAV remote sensing; deep learning; lightweight; crop classification

期刊名称：REMOTE SENSING （ 影响因子：4.1； 五年影响因子：4.8 ）

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年卷期： 2024 年 16 卷 21 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Technological advances have dramatically improved precision agriculture, and accurate crop classification is a key aspect of precision agriculture (PA). The flexibility and real-time nature of UAVs have led them to become an important tool for acquiring agricultural data and enabling precise crop classification. Currently, crop identification relies heavily on complex high-precision models that often struggle to provide real-time performance. Research on lightweight models specifically for crop classification is also limited. In this paper, we propose a crop classification method based on UAV visible-light images based on PP-LiteSeg, a lightweight model proposed by Baidu. To improve the accuracy, a pyramid pooling module is designed in this paper, which integrates adaptive mean pooling and CSPC (Convolutional Spatial Pyramid Pooling) techniques to handle high-resolution features. In addition, a sparse self-attention mechanism is employed to help the model pay more attention to locally important semantic regions in the image. The combination of adaptive average pooling and the sparse self-attention mechanism can better handle different levels of contextual information. To train the model, a new dataset based on UAV visible-light images including nine categories such as rice, soybean, red bean, wheat, corn, poplar, etc., with a time span of two years was created for accurate crop classification. The experimental results show that the improved model outperforms other models in terms of accuracy and prediction performance, with a MIoU (mean intersection ratio joint) of 94.79%, which is 2.79% better than the original model. Based on the UAV RGB images demonstrated in this paper, the improved model achieves a better balance between real-time performance and accuracy. In conclusion, the method effectively utilizes UAV RGB data and lightweight deep semantic segmentation models to provide valuable insights for crop classification and UAV field monitoring.

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