Synthesizing Forestry Images Conditioned on Plant Phenotype Using a Generative Adversarial Network

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Autori principali: Pal, Debasmita, Ross, Arun
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author Pal, Debasmita
Ross, Arun
author_facet Pal, Debasmita
Ross, Arun
contents Plant phenology and phenotype prediction using remote sensing data are increasingly gaining attention within the plant science community as a promising approach to enhance agricultural productivity. This work focuses on generating synthetic forestry images that satisfy certain phenotypic attributes, viz. canopy greenness. We harness a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) to synthesize biologically plausible and phenotypically stable forestry images conditioned on the greenness of vegetation (a continuous attribute) over a specific region of interest, describing a particular vegetation type in a mixed forest. The training data is based on the automated digital camera imagery provided by the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) and processed by the PhenoCam Network. Our method helps render the appearance of forest sites specific to a greenness value. The synthetic images are subsequently utilized to predict another phenotypic attribute, viz., redness of plants. The quality of the synthetic images is assessed using the Structural SIMilarity (SSIM) index and Fréchet Inception Distance (FID). Further, the greenness and redness indices of the synthetic images are compared against those of the original images using Root Mean Squared Percentage Error (RMSPE) to evaluate their accuracy and integrity. The generalizability and scalability of our proposed GAN model are established by effectively transforming it to generate synthetic images for other forest sites and vegetation types. From a broader perspective, this approach could be leveraged to visualize forestry based on different phenotypic attributes in the context of various environmental parameters.
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spellingShingle Synthesizing Forestry Images Conditioned on Plant Phenotype Using a Generative Adversarial Network
Pal, Debasmita
Ross, Arun
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Plant phenology and phenotype prediction using remote sensing data are increasingly gaining attention within the plant science community as a promising approach to enhance agricultural productivity. This work focuses on generating synthetic forestry images that satisfy certain phenotypic attributes, viz. canopy greenness. We harness a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) to synthesize biologically plausible and phenotypically stable forestry images conditioned on the greenness of vegetation (a continuous attribute) over a specific region of interest, describing a particular vegetation type in a mixed forest. The training data is based on the automated digital camera imagery provided by the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) and processed by the PhenoCam Network. Our method helps render the appearance of forest sites specific to a greenness value. The synthetic images are subsequently utilized to predict another phenotypic attribute, viz., redness of plants. The quality of the synthetic images is assessed using the Structural SIMilarity (SSIM) index and Fréchet Inception Distance (FID). Further, the greenness and redness indices of the synthetic images are compared against those of the original images using Root Mean Squared Percentage Error (RMSPE) to evaluate their accuracy and integrity. The generalizability and scalability of our proposed GAN model are established by effectively transforming it to generate synthetic images for other forest sites and vegetation types. From a broader perspective, this approach could be leveraged to visualize forestry based on different phenotypic attributes in the context of various environmental parameters.
title Synthesizing Forestry Images Conditioned on Plant Phenotype Using a Generative Adversarial Network
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.03789