Jigna Patel¹, Anand Ruparelia¹, Sudeep Tanwar^1,*, Fayez Alqahtani², Amr Tolba³, Ravi Sharma⁴, Maria Simona Raboaca^5,6,*, Bogdan Constantin Neagu⁷

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.1, pp. 1281-1301, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.038796

Abstract The overgrowth of weeds growing along with the primary crop in the fields reduces crop production. Conventional solutions like hand weeding are labor-intensive, costly, and time-consuming; farmers have used herbicides. The application of herbicide is effective but causes environmental and health concerns. Hence, Precision Agriculture (PA) suggests the variable spraying of herbicides so that herbicide chemicals do not affect the primary plants. Motivated by the gap above, we proposed a Deep Learning (DL) based model for detecting Eggplant (Brinjal) weed in this paper. The key objective of this study is to detect plant and non-plant (weed) parts from crop images.… More >

Wenshun Sheng^*, Xiongfeng Yu, Jiayan Lin, Xin Chen

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.47, No.2, pp. 1549-1569, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.039410

Abstract Small targets and occluded targets will inevitably appear in the image during the shooting process due to the influence of angle, distance, complex scene, illumination intensity, and other factors. These targets have few effective pixels, few features, and no apparent features, which makes extracting their efficient features difficult and easily leads to false detection, missed detection, and repeated detection, affecting the performance of target detection models. An improved faster region convolutional neural network (RCNN) algorithm (CF-RCNN) integrating convolutional block attention module (CBAM) and feature pyramid networks (FPN) is proposed to improve the detection and recognition accuracy of small-size objects, occluded… More >

Atif Naseer^1,*, Enrique Nava Baro¹, Sultan Daud Khan², Yolanda Vila³, Jennifer Doyle⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.3, pp. 5321-5344, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.020886

Abstract The Norway lobster, Nephrops norvegicus, is one of the main commercial crustacean fisheries in Europe. The abundance of Nephrops norvegicus stocks is assessed based on identifying and counting the burrows where they live from underwater videos collected by camera systems mounted on sledges. The Spanish Oceanographic Institute (IEO) and Marine Institute Ireland (MI-Ireland) conducts annual underwater television surveys (UWTV) to estimate the total abundance of Nephrops within the specified area, with a coefficient of variation (CV) or relative standard error of less than 20%. Currently, the identification and counting of the Nephrops burrows are carried out manually by the marine… More >

Sidharth Samanta¹, Mrutyunjaya Panda¹, Somula Ramasubbareddy², S. Sankar³, Daniel Burgos^4,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.2, pp. 1937-1948, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.014406

Abstract Earth surveillance through aerial images allows more accurate identification and characterization of objects present on the surface from space and airborne platforms. The progression of deep learning and computer vision methods and the availability of heterogeneous multispectral remote sensing data make the field more fertile for research. With the evolution of optical sensors, aerial images are becoming more precise and larger, which leads to a new kind of problem for object detection algorithms. This paper proposes the “Sliding Region-based Convolutional Neural Network (SRCNN),” which is an extension of the Faster Region-based Convolutional Neural Network (RCNN) object detection framework to make… More >