ICNet: A Dual-Branch Instance Segmentation Network for High-Precision Pig Counting

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第一作者： Liu, Shanghao

作者： Liu, Shanghao;Zhao, Chunjiang;Zhang, Hongming;Li, Shuqin;Wang, Rong;Liu, Shanghao;Zhao, Chunjiang;Li, Qifeng;Chen, Yini;Gao, Ronghua;Wang, Rong;Li, Xuwen;Chen, Yini;Li, Xuwen

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关键词： pig counting; instance segmentation; deformable convolution; parallel modules; pig segmentation dataset

期刊名称：AGRICULTURE-BASEL （ 影响因子：3.6； 五年影响因子：3.6 ）

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年卷期： 2024 年 14 卷 1 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： A clear understanding of the number of pigs plays a crucial role in breeding management. Computer vision technology possesses several advantages, as it is harmless and labour-saving compared to traditional counting methods. Nevertheless, the existing methods still face some challenges, such as: (1) the lack of a substantial high-precision pig-counting dataset; (2) creating a dataset for instance segmentation can be time-consuming and labor-intensive; (3) interactive occlusion and overlapping always lead to incorrect recognition of pigs; (4) existing methods for counting such as object detection have limited accuracy. To address the issues of dataset scarcity and labor-intensive manual labeling, we make a semi-auto instance labeling tool (SAI) to help us to produce a high-precision pig counting dataset named Count1200 including 1220 images and 25,762 instances. The speed at which we make labels far exceeds the speed of manual annotation. A concise and efficient instance segmentation model built upon several novel modules, referred to as the Instances Counting Network (ICNet), is proposed in this paper for pig counting. ICNet is a dual-branch model ingeniously formed of a combination of several layers, which is named the Parallel Deformable Convolutions Layer (PDCL), which is trained from scratch and primarily composed of a couple of parallel deformable convolution blocks (PDCBs). We effectively leverage the characteristic of modeling long-range sequences to build our basic block and compute layer. Along with the benefits of a large effective receptive field, PDCL achieves a better performance for multi-scale objects. In the trade-off between computational resources and performance, ICNet demonstrates excellent performance and surpasses other models in Count1200, AP of 71.4% and AP50 of 95.7% are obtained in our experiments. This work provides inspiration for the rapid creation of high-precision datasets and proposes an accurate approach to pig counting.

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