Welcome to visit Scientia Silvae Sinicae,Today is

Scientia Silvae Sinicae ›› 2024, Vol. 60 ›› Issue (4): 40-51.doi: 10.11707/j.1001-7488.LYKX20220847

Previous Articles     Next Articles

Leaf Identification Based on GAN-DCNN

Jingyi Xu1,2,3,Zhi Zhang4,Fei Yan1,*,Wenyue Zhang1,3   

  1. 1. Beijing Key Laboratory of Precision Forestry, Beijing Forestry University Beijing 100083
    2. State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100101
    3. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 101408
    4. SenseTime Research Beijing 100039
  • Received:2022-11-29 Online:2024-04-25 Published:2024-05-23
  • Contact: Fei Yan

Abstract:

Objective: A large number of training samples are needed for leaf identification based on deep learning. Insufficient sample size and single image style can affect the identification accuracy. However, studying the use of a small number of samples for leaf image reproduction and style transformation can greatly reduce the burden of data collection, which would provide effective technical means and theoretical support for improving forestry survey informationize and intelligence. Method: The leaf images of 6 tree species were collected to establish a dataset, and the light-weight generating adversarial networks (GAN) was introduced to propagate images and style translation, and expand the manually shot leaf dataset. Four deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN), AlexNet, GoogLeNet, ResNet34 and ShuffleNetV2, were applied to train the dataset and the original dataset, respectively, by which the role of image augmentation techniques of GAN in leaf recognition was analyzed. The optimal model was selected based on performance indicators such as model accuracy and training time, and the learning rate was adjusted. Finally, the test samples were used to verify the optimized model, and the feasibility and significance of the method in practice were analyzed. Result: The samples with high definition and high fidelity were generated based on generative adversarial networks, which was able to effectively enrich the sample category, and obtain leaf images with different shapes, and health conditions at different seasons. Compared with the original dataset, AlexNet, GoogLeNet, ResNet34 and ShuffleNetV2 all showed smaller training errors and higher validating accuracy on new dataset during the model training. Among them, the ShuffleNetV2 model with a learning rate of 0.01 had the best training effect on this dataset, whose highest validating accuracy was 99.7%. The model was verified by using the test samples and a good recognition performance on each leaf was achieved, and the overall recognition accuracy of the model was up to 99.8%. Compared with the ordinary DCNN without GAN, the model proposed in this paper significantly improved the accuracy of leaf identification. Conclusion: GAN can effectively expand the number of images and transform the style of images. The combined use of GAN and DCNN can significantly improve the accuracy of leaf identification, thus it can be applied in forest leaf identification.

Key words: leaf identification, generative adversarial networks, deep convolutional neural networks

CLC Number: