Artificial Intelligence-Based Segmentation and Classification of Plant Images with Missing Parts and Fractal Dimension Estimation

Existing research on image-based plant classification has demonstrated high performance using artificial intelligence algorithms. However, limited camera viewing angles can cause parts of the plant to be invisible in the acquired images, leading to an inaccurate classification. However, this issue h...

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Main Authors: Ganbayar Batchuluun, Seung Gu Kim, Jung Soo Kim, Tahir Mahmood, Kang Ryoung Park
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author Ganbayar Batchuluun
Seung Gu Kim
Jung Soo Kim
Tahir Mahmood
Kang Ryoung Park
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description Existing research on image-based plant classification has demonstrated high performance using artificial intelligence algorithms. However, limited camera viewing angles can cause parts of the plant to be invisible in the acquired images, leading to an inaccurate classification. However, this issue has not been addressed by previous research. Hence, our study aims to introduce a method to improve classification performance by taking these limitations into account; specifically, we incorporated both segmentation and classification networks structured as shallow networks to expedite the processing times. The proposed shallow plant segmentation network (Shal-PSN) performs adversarial learning based on a discriminator network; and a shallow plant classification network (Shal-PCN) with applied residual connections was also implemented. Moreover, the fractal dimension estimation is used in this study for analyzing the segmentation results. Additionally, this study evaluated the performance of the proposed Shal-PSN that achieved the dice scores (DSs) of 87.43% and 85.71% with PlantVillage and open leaf image (OLID-I) open datasets, respectively, in instances where 40–60% of plant parts were missing. Moreover, the results demonstrate that the proposed method increased the classification accuracy from 41.16% to 90.51% in the same instances. Overall, our approach achieved superior performance compared to the existing state-of-the-art classification methods.
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spelling doaj-art-33f5dbbfba4d42c0aa8bbd9d67f20ab42025-08-20T02:28:05ZengMDPI AGFractal and Fractional2504-31102024-10-0181163310.3390/fractalfract8110633Artificial Intelligence-Based Segmentation and Classification of Plant Images with Missing Parts and Fractal Dimension EstimationGanbayar Batchuluun0Seung Gu Kim1Jung Soo Kim2Tahir Mahmood3Kang Ryoung Park4Division of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Dongguk University, 30 Pildong-ro 1-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul 04620, Republic of KoreaDivision of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Dongguk University, 30 Pildong-ro 1-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul 04620, Republic of KoreaDivision of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Dongguk University, 30 Pildong-ro 1-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul 04620, Republic of KoreaDivision of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Dongguk University, 30 Pildong-ro 1-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul 04620, Republic of KoreaDivision of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Dongguk University, 30 Pildong-ro 1-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul 04620, Republic of KoreaExisting research on image-based plant classification has demonstrated high performance using artificial intelligence algorithms. However, limited camera viewing angles can cause parts of the plant to be invisible in the acquired images, leading to an inaccurate classification. However, this issue has not been addressed by previous research. Hence, our study aims to introduce a method to improve classification performance by taking these limitations into account; specifically, we incorporated both segmentation and classification networks structured as shallow networks to expedite the processing times. The proposed shallow plant segmentation network (Shal-PSN) performs adversarial learning based on a discriminator network; and a shallow plant classification network (Shal-PCN) with applied residual connections was also implemented. Moreover, the fractal dimension estimation is used in this study for analyzing the segmentation results. Additionally, this study evaluated the performance of the proposed Shal-PSN that achieved the dice scores (DSs) of 87.43% and 85.71% with PlantVillage and open leaf image (OLID-I) open datasets, respectively, in instances where 40–60% of plant parts were missing. Moreover, the results demonstrate that the proposed method increased the classification accuracy from 41.16% to 90.51% in the same instances. Overall, our approach achieved superior performance compared to the existing state-of-the-art classification methods.https://www.mdpi.com/2504-3110/8/11/633plant imagesmissing plant partslimited camera viewing angledeep learningplant image classification and segmentationfractal dimension
spellingShingle Ganbayar Batchuluun
Seung Gu Kim
Jung Soo Kim
Tahir Mahmood
Kang Ryoung Park
Artificial Intelligence-Based Segmentation and Classification of Plant Images with Missing Parts and Fractal Dimension Estimation
Fractal and Fractional
plant images
missing plant parts
limited camera viewing angle
deep learning
plant image classification and segmentation
fractal dimension
title Artificial Intelligence-Based Segmentation and Classification of Plant Images with Missing Parts and Fractal Dimension Estimation
title_full Artificial Intelligence-Based Segmentation and Classification of Plant Images with Missing Parts and Fractal Dimension Estimation
title_fullStr Artificial Intelligence-Based Segmentation and Classification of Plant Images with Missing Parts and Fractal Dimension Estimation
title_full_unstemmed Artificial Intelligence-Based Segmentation and Classification of Plant Images with Missing Parts and Fractal Dimension Estimation
title_short Artificial Intelligence-Based Segmentation and Classification of Plant Images with Missing Parts and Fractal Dimension Estimation
title_sort artificial intelligence based segmentation and classification of plant images with missing parts and fractal dimension estimation
topic plant images
missing plant parts
limited camera viewing angle
deep learning
plant image classification and segmentation
fractal dimension
url https://www.mdpi.com/2504-3110/8/11/633
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