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Tree Recognition and Crown Width Extraction Based on Novel Faster-RCNN in a Dense Loblolly Pine Environment
Tree crown width relates directly to wood quality and tree growth. The traditional method used to measure crown width is labor-intensive and time-consuming. Pairing imagery taken by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a deep learning algorithm such as a faster region-based convolutional neural network (Faster-RCNN) has the potential to be an alternative to the traditional method. In this study, Faster-RCNN outperformed single-shot multibox detector (SSD) for crown detection in a young loblolly pine stand but performed poorly in a dense, mature loblolly pine stand. This paper proposes a novel Faster-RCNN algorithm for tree crown identification and crown width extraction in a forest stand environment with high-density loblolly pine forests. The new algorithm uses Residual Network 101 (ResNet101) and a feature pyramid network (FPN) to build an FPN_ResNet101 structure, improving the capability to model shallow location feature extraction. The algorithm was applied to images from a mature loblolly pine plot in eastern Texas, USA. The results show that the accuracy of crown recognition and crown width measurement using the FPN_ResNet101 structure as the backbone network in Faster-RCNN (FPN_Faster-RCNN_ResNet101) was high, being 95.26% and 0.95, respectively, which was 4.90% and 0.27 higher than when using Faster-RCNN with ResNet101 as the backbone network (Faster-RCNN_ResNet101). The results fully confirm the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.
Tree Recognition and Crown Width Extraction Based on Novel Faster-RCNN in a Dense Loblolly Pine Environment
Tree crown width relates directly to wood quality and tree growth. The traditional method used to measure crown width is labor-intensive and time-consuming. Pairing imagery taken by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a deep learning algorithm such as a faster region-based convolutional neural network (Faster-RCNN) has the potential to be an alternative to the traditional method. In this study, Faster-RCNN outperformed single-shot multibox detector (SSD) for crown detection in a young loblolly pine stand but performed poorly in a dense, mature loblolly pine stand. This paper proposes a novel Faster-RCNN algorithm for tree crown identification and crown width extraction in a forest stand environment with high-density loblolly pine forests. The new algorithm uses Residual Network 101 (ResNet101) and a feature pyramid network (FPN) to build an FPN_ResNet101 structure, improving the capability to model shallow location feature extraction. The algorithm was applied to images from a mature loblolly pine plot in eastern Texas, USA. The results show that the accuracy of crown recognition and crown width measurement using the FPN_ResNet101 structure as the backbone network in Faster-RCNN (FPN_Faster-RCNN_ResNet101) was high, being 95.26% and 0.95, respectively, which was 4.90% and 0.27 higher than when using Faster-RCNN with ResNet101 as the backbone network (Faster-RCNN_ResNet101). The results fully confirm the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.
Tree Recognition and Crown Width Extraction Based on Novel Faster-RCNN in a Dense Loblolly Pine Environment
Chongyuan Cai (author) / Hao Xu (author) / Sheng Chen (author) / Laibang Yang (author) / Yuhui Weng (author) / Siqi Huang (author) / Chen Dong (author) / Xiongwei Lou (author)
2023
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ResNet101 , FPN , UAV , deep learning , loblolly pine , Plant ecology , QK900-989
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