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The existing pig counting system based on image processing are seriously affected by light conditions, and the counting accuracy is poor when pigs are crowded and obscured.To realize the intelligent pig counting, the paper proposed a counting scheme based on the improved instance segmentation algorithm was proposed in this study. Aiming at the problems of image illumination and target edge blur, Laplace operator was used to preprocess the images. The feature extraction network of MASK R-CNN network was improved by using Resnet-152 as the Mask R-CNN feature extraction network, and the original Feature Pyramid Network(FPN) was followed by a bottom-up enhancement path, which directly fused the low-level edge features with the high-level features to improve the recognition ability of the target edge bluring. The non maximum suppression process and loss function were optimized and improved to improve the segmentation accuracy. The experiments were carried out at three different real pig farms to verify the counting accuracy, respectively in Hebei province, Jilin province and Inner Mongolia. The size of the cage in Hebei pig farm was 5.5 m × 1.8 m, with an average of 12 pigs in a single pen, with a feeding density of 1.21 pigs/m²; the size of the cage in Jilin pig farm was 5.5 m × 3.9 m, with an average of 22 pigs in a single pen, and the average rearing density was 1.03 pigs/m²; the size of the cage in Inner Mongolia pig farm was 11.4 m × 5.28 m, with an average of 80 pigs in a single pen, the average feeding density was 1.32 pigs/m². The RGB camera is was installed on the top of the pen and acquired the image in daytime. 2 400 images were collected in total, and 2000 images were selected after image preprocessing, and 1 250 images of three pig farms were selected as the original data set according to the ratio of 2:2:1. The training set and verification set were enhanced to 1 500 and 150 images and 250 images for the test set, The experimental results showed that 98 images could realize exact counting and 2 images missed 1 pig in the Jilin pig farm, the accuracy of pig counting was 98%. In Hebei pig farm, 99 images could realize the exact counting and the accuracy of pig counting was 99%. For Inner Mongolia pig farms with high feeding density, the accuracy of pig counting was 86%, among the 50 test images, 7 images missed detection, 4 images missed 1 target, 3 images missed 2 targets, The results can provide the application of the artificial intelligent in agriculture field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Accurate and timely winter wheat yield estimation has significant effect to grain markets and policy. Most crop estimation methods can be divided into two categories, one is based on the crop model and the other is the statistical learning method. For statistical learning methods with recent advances in deep learning, convolutional neural network (CNN) have become state-of-the-art algorithms. can extract the depth-dependent features of crop growth. However, the pivotal challenge is to combine remote sensing images with CNN. In this paper, we employ the method of histogram dimensionality reduction and time series fusion to generate the input layer. The experiment firstly performed projection transformation, splicing, mask, fusion, and clipping for 6 different MODIS images in the research area from 2006 to 2016, and then generated 21 600 fusion images of 12 bands (surface reflectance data of 7 different wavelengths in MOD09A1, surface temperature of day and night in MYD11A2, NDVI and EVI in MOD13A1, and FPAR in MOD15A2H). Then, the sensitivity range of winter wheat growth in each band is divided into 36 sections, and the histogram statistics are used to reduce the dimension to generate a vector of length 36, so the remote sensing image generates a matrix of 36×36×12 in the 228-day growing season. The corresponding time and regional statistics are applied as the output layer to construct a complete sample. The yield estimation sample database of 12 indices in the winter wheat region of north China (60 prefecture-level cities) from 2006 to 2016 was constructed, and the training set and verification set were divided into 10:1 for the training and evaluation of yield estimation model. Finally, the neural network structure is designed according to the sample, which consists of the input layer, 7 convolution layers (c1-c7), 7 activation layers, 7 batch normalization layers, 3 dropout layers, 2 full connection layers, and output layer. The number of c1-c7 convolution kernels is 64, 64, 128, 128, 256, 256, 256, the convolution kernel size is 3×3 dpi, and the sliding step length is 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1 and 2 respectively, 1 zero paddings per convolutional layer. At the same time, batch normalization and Relu function activation are performed on each convolutional layer, and the Dropout layer is used in the fully connected layer. The results show that: 1) The root-mean-square error (RMSE) and coefficient of determination (R²) of the convolutional neural network model on the training set are 183.82 kg/hm² and 0.98 respectively. In the validation set, RMSE and R² are 689.72 kg/hm² and 0.71. 2) With the same neural network structure, the average RMSE of the estimated samples from 2006 to 2016 trained as validation sets for 11 models was 772.03 kg/hm². The error of the yield estimation model was the largest in 2007 and the smallest in 2012, and the RMSE was 920.45 kg/hm² and 632.08 kg/hm² respectively. Crop estimation algorithm based on CNN has high robustness and precision; 3) The accuracy analysis of prediction yield at the municipal level of different provinces in three temporal points of 2007, 2012 and 2016 indicates that the model has higher accuracy in most areas of the northern winter wheat region, especially, RMSE of Hebei and Shandong provinces is approximately 500 kg/hm². The result shows that CNN is well applied to the estimation of winter wheat production. This is a great thought of remote sensing combined with the deep learning algorithm. This method can be used to estimate yield by remote sensing in different scales and regions. Compared with the traditional method, this “start-to-end” learning method has the advantage of synergy and can obtain the optimal estimation model relative to the whole area. Meanwhile, As data accumulates, the estimation accuracy will be continuously improved, and it has a good application prospect in the national agricultural production forecast. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the advancement of remote sensing technology, the high spatial resolution remote sensing image contains rich special information with a great detail. At the same time, the complexity of high spatial resolution remote sensing images also requires higher the classification technology of remote sensing images. However, in the face of high spatial resolution remote sensing image more obvious geometrical structure and the more rich texture characteristics, how to design rational system of characteristics, select the appropriate sorting algorithms to accurately and quickly grasp the number of rural land of building and its distribution status, are of great significance to balance urban and rural areas, save land, and realize sustainable development. This will help in exploring the application of deep learning model in high spatial resolution remote sensing image building extraction, and have research significance for improving the classification accuracy of high resolution remote sensing image. In this paper, the semantic segmentation model (SegNet) was used for extracting buildings. SegNet is mainly composed of encoder network, decoder network and pixel-wise classification layer. The encoder network transforms high-dimensional vectors into low-dimensional vectors, enabling low-dimensional extraction of high-dimensional features. The decoder network maps low-resolution feature maps to high spatial resolution feature maps, realizing the reconstruction of low-dimensional vectors to high-dimensional vectors. The softmax classifier separately classifies each pixel, which outputs the probability that each pixel belongs to each class. In this paper, a 3000 pixel × 3000 pixel and two 2000 pixel × 2000 pixel slices were taken from the global remote sensing image of Bazhou City, Hebei Province as training samples, and a 3000 pixel × 3000 pixel slice was taken as the verification sample. In this paper, five comparative experiments were used to extract the buildings, including PSPNet, support vector machine, random forest, ISO clustering and maximum likelihood method. The confusion matrix of each classification method was obtained by calculating the difference between the classification results of the comparison experiment and the real value. From the traditional classification algorithm to the shallow learning algorithm to the deep learning algorithm, the Kappa coefficient and overall accuracy of classification kept constantly increasing, among which SegNet semantic segmentation algorithm based on the deep convolutional network performed better than the other five algorithms in extracting buildings from high spatial resolution remote sensing image. The Kappa coefficient and the overall accuracy of SegNet semantic segmentation algorithm were 0.90 and 96.61%, respectively, and the ground truth value was basically the same as the classification result. The F1Score of building extraction of SegNet semantic segmentation algorithm based on deep convolution network was 0.91, but the other five algorithms were below 0.87. SegNet had the lowest error rate of 9.71% for buildings, indicating that the ability to identify buildings of semantic segmentation algorithm from high spatial resolution remote sensing was superior to traditional classification algorithms, shallow layer learning algorithms based on machine learning, and PSPNet semantic segmentation algorithm based on deep convolution network. The Kappa coefficient and overall accuracy of the remaining five classification algorithms were respectively below 0.83 and 94.68%, and the difference between the ground truth value and the classification result was relatively large. SegNet can not only make use of spectral information but also make full use of abundant spatial information. During SegNet training, more essential features can be learned, and more ideal features suitable for pattern classification were finally formed, which can enhance the ability of convergence and generalization of the model and improve the classification accuracy. Traditional classification algorithms, such as ISO clustering and maximum likelihood method, failed to make use of the rich spatial information of the high-resolution remote sensing image, so the accuracy was relatively low. Due to limited computing units and large amount of high spatial resolution remote sensing image data, shallow layer learning algorithms based on machine learning such as support vector machines and random forest cannot effectively express complex features of ground objects, so their advantages are not obvious in building extraction from the high spatial resolution remote sensing images. The experimental results showed that the SegNet based on deep learning has the best performance, and it has important theoretical significance to explore the application of deep learning model to remote sensing image classification methods. At the same time, the research results also provide a reference for improving the classification accuracy of high resolution remote sensing images. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]