Multi-Resolution Outlier Pooling for Sorghum Classification

Chao Ren, Justin Dulay, Gregory Rolwes, Duke Pauli, Nadia Shakoor, Abby Stylianou; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2021, pp. 2931-2939

Abstract


Automated high throughput plant phenotyping involves leveraging sensors, such as RGB, thermal and hyperspectral cameras (among others), to make large scale and rapid measurements of the physical properties of plants for the purpose of better understanding the difference between crops and facilitating rapid plant breeding programs. One of the most basic phenotyping tasks is to determine the cultivar, or species, in a particular sensor product. This simple phenotype can be used to detect errors in planting and to learn the most differentiating features between cultivars. It is also a challenging visual recognition task, as a large number of highly related crops are grown simultaneously, leading to a classification problem with low inter-class variance. In this paper, we introduce the Sorghum-100 dataset, a large dataset of RGB imagery of sorghum captured by a state-of-the-art gantry system, a multi-resolution network architecture that learns both global and fine-grained features on the crops, and a new global pooling strategy called Dynamic Outlier Pooling which outperforms standard global pooling strategies on this task.

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@InProceedings{Ren_2021_CVPR, author = {Ren, Chao and Dulay, Justin and Rolwes, Gregory and Pauli, Duke and Shakoor, Nadia and Stylianou, Abby}, title = {Multi-Resolution Outlier Pooling for Sorghum Classification}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2021}, pages = {2931-2939} }