Exploiting Boundary Loss for the Hierarchical Panoptic Segmentation of Plants and Leaves

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Hauptverfasser: Darbyshire, Madeleine, Sklar, Elizabeth, Parsons, Simon
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author Darbyshire, Madeleine
Sklar, Elizabeth
Parsons, Simon
author_facet Darbyshire, Madeleine
Sklar, Elizabeth
Parsons, Simon
contents Precision agriculture leverages data and machine learning so that farmers can monitor their crops and target interventions precisely. This enables the precision application of herbicide only to weeds, or the precision application of fertilizer only to undernourished crops, rather than to the entire field. The approach promises to maximize yields while minimizing resource use and harm to the surrounding environment. To this end, we propose a hierarchical panoptic segmentation method that simultaneously determines leaf count (as an identifier of plant growth)and locates weeds within an image. In particular, our approach aims to improve the segmentation of smaller instances like the leaves and weeds by incorporating focal loss and boundary loss. Not only does this result in competitive performance, achieving a PQ+ of 81.89 on the standard training set, but we also demonstrate we can improve leaf-counting accuracy with our method. The code is available at https://github.com/madeleinedarbyshire/HierarchicalMask2Former.
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spellingShingle Exploiting Boundary Loss for the Hierarchical Panoptic Segmentation of Plants and Leaves
Darbyshire, Madeleine
Sklar, Elizabeth
Parsons, Simon
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Precision agriculture leverages data and machine learning so that farmers can monitor their crops and target interventions precisely. This enables the precision application of herbicide only to weeds, or the precision application of fertilizer only to undernourished crops, rather than to the entire field. The approach promises to maximize yields while minimizing resource use and harm to the surrounding environment. To this end, we propose a hierarchical panoptic segmentation method that simultaneously determines leaf count (as an identifier of plant growth)and locates weeds within an image. In particular, our approach aims to improve the segmentation of smaller instances like the leaves and weeds by incorporating focal loss and boundary loss. Not only does this result in competitive performance, achieving a PQ+ of 81.89 on the standard training set, but we also demonstrate we can improve leaf-counting accuracy with our method. The code is available at https://github.com/madeleinedarbyshire/HierarchicalMask2Former.
title Exploiting Boundary Loss for the Hierarchical Panoptic Segmentation of Plants and Leaves
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00527