Performance Evaluation of Semi-supervised Learning Frameworks for Multi-Class Weed Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03390v1
• Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2024 00:59:51 GMT
• Title: Performance Evaluation of Semi-supervised Learning Frameworks for Multi-Class Weed Detection
• Authors: Jiajia Li, Dong Chen, Xunyuan Yin, and Zhaojian Li
• Abstract summary: Effective weed control plays a crucial role in optimizing crop yield and enhancing agricultural product quality. Recent advances in precision weed management enabled by ML and DL provide a sustainable alternative. Semi-supervised learning methods, especially semi-supervised learning, have gained increased attention in the broader domain of computer vision.
• Score: 15.828967396019143
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Effective weed control plays a crucial role in optimizing crop yield and enhancing agricultural product quality. However, the reliance on herbicide application not only poses a critical threat to the environment but also promotes the emergence of resistant weeds. Fortunately, recent advances in precision weed management enabled by ML and DL provide a sustainable alternative. Despite great progress, existing algorithms are mainly developed based on supervised learning approaches, which typically demand large-scale datasets with manual-labeled annotations, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive. As such, label-efficient learning methods, especially semi-supervised learning, have gained increased attention in the broader domain of computer vision and have demonstrated promising performance. These methods aim to utilize a small number of labeled data samples along with a great number of unlabeled samples to develop high-performing models comparable to the supervised learning counterpart trained on a large amount of labeled data samples. In this study, we assess the effectiveness of a semi-supervised learning framework for multi-class weed detection, employing two well-known object detection frameworks, namely FCOS and Faster-RCNN. Specifically, we evaluate a generalized student-teacher framework with an improved pseudo-label generation module to produce reliable pseudo-labels for the unlabeled data. To enhance generalization, an ensemble student network is employed to facilitate the training process. Experimental results show that the proposed approach is able to achieve approximately 76\% and 96\% detection accuracy as the supervised methods with only 10\% of labeled data in CottenWeedDet3 and CottonWeedDet12, respectively. We offer access to the source code, contributing a valuable resource for ongoing semi-supervised learning research in weed detection and beyond.

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