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Scientia Silvae Sinicae ›› 2023, Vol. 59 ›› Issue (2): 121-128.doi: 10.11707/j.1001-7488.LYKX20210787

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Forest Pest Identification Method Based on a Deep Bilinear Transformation Attention Mechanism Network

Jiajie Su1(),Zheyu Zhang1,Jiajun Xu1,Bin Li2,Jun Lü1,Qing Yao1,*   

  1. 1. School of Information Science and Technology, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University Hangzhou 310018
    2. Zhejiang Topu Yunnong Technology Co., Ltd. Hangzhou 310015
  • Received:2021-10-19 Online:2023-02-25 Published:2023-04-27
  • Contact: Qing Yao E-mail:13750782397@163.com

Abstract:

Objective: There are many forest pest species, and some of them are morphologically similar with small visual differences, and are difficult to be distinguished, which makes it difficult for forestry prevention and control technicians to quickly and accurately identify them. In regard to those problems, this paper proposes a fine-grained image identification method of forest pests based on deep bilinear transformation attention mechanism network (DBTANet). Method: The images of 60 forest pests and 14 harmful forest plants were targeted. The original images were enhanced by methods including horizontal mirror, brightness adjustment, Gaussian blur and Gaussian noise. All images were divided into training dataset, verification dataset and test dataset by a 6∶2∶2 ratio. The bilinear interpolation method was used to scale each image to a uniform size. The residual module in the ResNet network was improved. A deep bilinear conversion module and an attention mechanism module were added. DBTANet-101 model was developed to extract features and classify forest pest species. Three evaluation indexes of average accuracy, average recall rate and average F1 score were used to evaluate the identification results of forestry pests by thd different models. Result: A total of 74 forest pest species were identified by five models of VGGNet-19, ResNet-50, ResNet-101, improved ResNet-50 and improved ResNet-101, respectively, and the average accuracy rates of the five models were 78.6%, 74.9%, 76.3%, 79.7% and 81.1%, respectively. On the basis of improved ResNet-101 of the residual module, the deep bilinear conversion module and the attention mechanism module were added, after then the average recognition rate and recall rate of 74 forestry pests increased by 10.2% and 12.1%, respectively. The average recognition rate of fine-grained images of 22 similar pests increased by 15.7%. Conclusion: The fine-grained image recognition method of forest pests based on deep bilinear transformation attention mechanism network (DBTANet) achieves the average identification rate of 74 forest pests by 91.3% and the average identification rate of 22 similar forest pest species by 85.1%. The bilinear transformation module and the attention mechanism can effectively improve the accuracy of the forest pest identification model.

Key words: forest pests, fine-grained image recognition, deep bilinear transformation, attention mechanism, ResNet

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