A Deep Learning-based Pest Insect Monitoring System for Ultra-low Power Pocket-sized Drones

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Main Authors: Crupi, Luca, Butera, Luca, Ferrante, Alberto, Palossi, Daniele
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Published: 2024
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author Crupi, Luca
Butera, Luca
Ferrante, Alberto
Palossi, Daniele
author_facet Crupi, Luca
Butera, Luca
Ferrante, Alberto
Palossi, Daniele
contents Smart farming and precision agriculture represent game-changer technologies for efficient and sustainable agribusiness. Miniaturized palm-sized drones can act as flexible smart sensors inspecting crops, looking for early signs of potential pest outbreaking. However, achieving such an ambitious goal requires hardware-software codesign to develop accurate deep learning (DL) detection models while keeping memory and computational needs under an ultra-tight budget, i.e., a few MB on-chip memory and a few 100s mW power envelope. This work presents a novel vertically integrated solution featuring two ultra-low power System-on-Chips (SoCs), i.e., the dual-core STM32H74 and a multi-core GWT GAP9, running two State-of-the-Art DL models for detecting the Popillia japonica bug. We fine-tune both models for our image-based detection task, quantize them in 8-bit integers, and deploy them on the two SoCs. On the STM32H74, we deploy a FOMO-MobileNetV2 model, achieving a mean average precision (mAP) of 0.66 and running at 16.1 frame/s within 498 mW. While on the GAP9 SoC, we deploy a more complex SSDLite-MobileNetV3, which scores an mAP of 0.79 and peaks at 6.8 frame/s within 33 mW. Compared to a top-notch RetinaNet-ResNet101-FPN full-precision baseline, which requires 14.9x more memory and 300x more operations per inference, our best model drops only 15\% in mAP, paving the way toward autonomous palm-sized drones capable of lightweight and precise pest detection.
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spellingShingle A Deep Learning-based Pest Insect Monitoring System for Ultra-low Power Pocket-sized Drones
Crupi, Luca
Butera, Luca
Ferrante, Alberto
Palossi, Daniele
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
Smart farming and precision agriculture represent game-changer technologies for efficient and sustainable agribusiness. Miniaturized palm-sized drones can act as flexible smart sensors inspecting crops, looking for early signs of potential pest outbreaking. However, achieving such an ambitious goal requires hardware-software codesign to develop accurate deep learning (DL) detection models while keeping memory and computational needs under an ultra-tight budget, i.e., a few MB on-chip memory and a few 100s mW power envelope. This work presents a novel vertically integrated solution featuring two ultra-low power System-on-Chips (SoCs), i.e., the dual-core STM32H74 and a multi-core GWT GAP9, running two State-of-the-Art DL models for detecting the Popillia japonica bug. We fine-tune both models for our image-based detection task, quantize them in 8-bit integers, and deploy them on the two SoCs. On the STM32H74, we deploy a FOMO-MobileNetV2 model, achieving a mean average precision (mAP) of 0.66 and running at 16.1 frame/s within 498 mW. While on the GAP9 SoC, we deploy a more complex SSDLite-MobileNetV3, which scores an mAP of 0.79 and peaks at 6.8 frame/s within 33 mW. Compared to a top-notch RetinaNet-ResNet101-FPN full-precision baseline, which requires 14.9x more memory and 300x more operations per inference, our best model drops only 15\% in mAP, paving the way toward autonomous palm-sized drones capable of lightweight and precise pest detection.
title A Deep Learning-based Pest Insect Monitoring System for Ultra-low Power Pocket-sized Drones
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.00815