The agriculture sector has an immense potential to improve the requirement of food and supplies healthy and nutritious food.Crop insect detection is a challenging task for farmers as a significant portion of the crops...The agriculture sector has an immense potential to improve the requirement of food and supplies healthy and nutritious food.Crop insect detection is a challenging task for farmers as a significant portion of the crops are damaged,and the quality is degraded due to the pest attack.Traditional insect identification has the drawback of requiring well-trained tax-onomists to identify insects based on morphological features accurately.Experiments were conducted for classification on nine and 24 insect classes of Wang and Xie dataset using the shape features and applying machine learning techniques such as artificial neural net-works(ANN),support vector machine(SVM),k-nearest neighbors(KNN),naive bayes(NB)and convolutional neural network(CNN)model.This paper presents the insect pest detec-tion algorithm that consists of foreground extraction and contour identification to detect the insects for Wang,Xie,Deng,and IP102 datasets in a highly complex background.The 9-fold cross-validation was applied to improve the performance of the classification mod-els.The highest classification rate of 91.5%and 90%was achieved for nine and 24 class insects using the CNN model.The detection performance was accomplished with less com-putation time for Wang,Xie,Deng,and IP102 datasets using insect pest detection algo-rithm.The comparison results with the state-of-the-art classification algorithms exhibited considerable improvement in classification accuracy,computation time perfor-mance while apply more efficiently in field crops to recognize the insects.The results of classification accuracy are used to recognize the crop insects in the early stages and reduce the time to enhance the crop yield and crop quality in agriculture.展开更多
文摘The agriculture sector has an immense potential to improve the requirement of food and supplies healthy and nutritious food.Crop insect detection is a challenging task for farmers as a significant portion of the crops are damaged,and the quality is degraded due to the pest attack.Traditional insect identification has the drawback of requiring well-trained tax-onomists to identify insects based on morphological features accurately.Experiments were conducted for classification on nine and 24 insect classes of Wang and Xie dataset using the shape features and applying machine learning techniques such as artificial neural net-works(ANN),support vector machine(SVM),k-nearest neighbors(KNN),naive bayes(NB)and convolutional neural network(CNN)model.This paper presents the insect pest detec-tion algorithm that consists of foreground extraction and contour identification to detect the insects for Wang,Xie,Deng,and IP102 datasets in a highly complex background.The 9-fold cross-validation was applied to improve the performance of the classification mod-els.The highest classification rate of 91.5%and 90%was achieved for nine and 24 class insects using the CNN model.The detection performance was accomplished with less com-putation time for Wang,Xie,Deng,and IP102 datasets using insect pest detection algo-rithm.The comparison results with the state-of-the-art classification algorithms exhibited considerable improvement in classification accuracy,computation time perfor-mance while apply more efficiently in field crops to recognize the insects.The results of classification accuracy are used to recognize the crop insects in the early stages and reduce the time to enhance the crop yield and crop quality in agriculture.
