Real-Time Prediction of Growth Characteristics for Individual Fruits Using Deep Learning. 2022

Takaya Hondo, and Kazuki Kobayashi, and Yuya Aoyagi
Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu University, 4-17-1, Wakasato, Nagano City 380-8553, Nagano, Japan.

Understanding the growth status of fruits can enable precise growth management and improve the product quality. Previous studies have rarely used deep learning to observe changes over time, and manual annotation is required to detect hidden regions of fruit. Thus, additional research is required for automatic annotation and tracking fruit changes over time. We propose a system to record the growth characteristics of individual apples in real time using Mask R-CNN. To accurately detect fruit regions hidden behind leaves and other fruits, we developed a region detection model by automatically generating 3000 composite orchard images using cropped images of leaves and fruits. The effectiveness of the proposed method was verified on a total of 1417 orchard images obtained from the monitoring system, tracking the size of fruits in the images. The mean absolute percentage error between the true value manually annotated from the images and detection value provided by the proposed method was less than 0.079, suggesting that the proposed method could extract fruit sizes in real time with high accuracy. Moreover, each prediction could capture a relative growth curve that closely matched the actual curve after approximately 150 elapsed days, even if a target fruit was partially hidden.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D005638 Fruit The fleshy or dry ripened ovary of a plant, enclosing the seed or seeds. Berries,Legume Pod,Plant Aril,Plant Capsule,Aril, Plant,Arils, Plant,Berry,Capsule, Plant,Capsules, Plant,Fruits,Legume Pods,Plant Arils,Plant Capsules,Pod, Legume,Pods, Legume
D000077321 Deep Learning Supervised or unsupervised machine learning methods that use multiple layers of data representations generated by nonlinear transformations, instead of individual task-specific ALGORITHMS, to build and train neural network models. Hierarchical Learning,Learning, Deep,Learning, Hierarchical
D001686 Biological Phenomena Biological processes, properties, and characteristics of the whole organism in human, animal, microorganisms, and plants, and of the biosphere. Biological Processes,Biologic Phenomena,Biological Phenomenon,Biological Process,Phenomena, Biological,Phenomena, Biologic,Phenomenon, Biological,Process, Biological,Processes, Biological
D027845 Malus A plant genus in the family ROSACEAE, order Rosales, subclass Rosidae. It is best known as a source of the edible fruit (apple) and is cultivated in temperate climates worldwide. Apple,Apple Tree,Crab Apple,Malus domestica,Apple Trees,Apple, Crab,Apples,Apples, Crab,Crab Apples,Tree, Apple,Trees, Apple

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