Automatic count of wheat ears in field wheat by improved YOLOv7

Suyang Zhong; Tianle Wu; Xia Geng; Zhenyi Li

doi:10.1117/12.2685526

15 August 2023 Automatic count of wheat ears in field wheat by improved YOLOv7

Suyang Zhong, Tianle Wu, Xia Geng, Zhenyi Li

Proceedings Volume 12719, Second International Conference on Electronic Information Technology (EIT 2023); 1271942 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2685526
Event: Second International Conference on Electronic Information Technology (EIT 2023), 2023, Wuhan, China

Abstract

Considering the difficulty of counting wheat sheaves in the field, this paper proposes an improved Yolov7 (YOU ONLY LOOKCE version 7) model for the automatic counting of wheat sheaves in the field. Based on Yolov7, the method adds a simple parameter-free attention module (SimAM) and full-dimensional dynamic convolution (ODConv), which can enhance the dimensional interactivity of the backbone network in extracting features. By introducing a centralised feature pyramid (CFP) into the neck structure, a comprehensive and differentiated feature representation can be effectively obtained. The improved Yolov7 model improves the applicability of automatic wheat counting and allows for better suppression of useless information in complex field environments. Several models were selected for comparative testing in the collected wheat head dataset, and the results showed that the improved Yolov7 achieved an average accuracy of 96.5%, outperforming other target detection models and allowing more accurate identification of wheat spike counts.

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Suyang Zhong, Tianle Wu, Xia Geng, and Zhenyi Li "Automatic count of wheat ears in field wheat by improved YOLOv7", Proc. SPIE 12719, Second International Conference on Electronic Information Technology (EIT 2023), 1271942 (15 August 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2685526

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