Recognition Pest by Image-Based Transfer Learning.

BACKGROUND: Plant pest of insects mainly refers to insects and mites that harm crops and products. It has a wide variety, wide distribution, fast reproduction and large quantity, which directly causes serious losses to crops. So pest recognition is very importance to crops growing healthily, and this in turn affects crop yields and quality. At present, it is a great challenge to realize accurate and reliable pest identification.

RESULTS: In this study, we put forward a diagnostic system based on transfer learning for pest detection and recognition. This method is able to train and test ten types of pests and achieves an accuracy of 93.84%. We compared transfer learning method with human experts and traditional neural network model. Experimental results show that the performance of the proposed method is comparable to human experts and traditional neural network. To verify the general adaptability of this model, we used our model to recognize two types of weeds: Sisymbrium Sophia and Procumbent Speedwell, and achieved an accuracy of 98.92%.

CONCLUSION: The proposed method can provide evidence for the control of pests and weeds and the precise spraying of pesticides. Thus, it provides reliable technical support for precision agriculture. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.