Generating Diverse Agricultural Data for Vision-Based Farming Applications

Mikolaj Cieslak, Umabharathi Govindarajan, Alejandro Garcia, Anuradha Chandrashekar, Torsten Hadrich, Aleksander Mendoza-Drosik, Dominik L. Michels, Soren Pirk, Chia-Chun Fu, Wojciech Palubicki; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2024, pp. 5422-5431

We present a specialized procedural model for generating synthetic agricultural scenes focusing on soybean crops along with various weeds. The model simulates distinct growth stages of these plants diverse soil conditions and randomized field arrangements under varying lighting conditions. The integration of real-world textures and environmental factors into the procedural generation process enhances the photorealism and applicability of the synthetic data. We validate our model's effectiveness by comparing the synthetic data against real agricultural images demonstrating its potential to significantly augment training data for machine learning models in agriculture. This approach not only provides a cost-effective solution for generating high-quality diverse data but also addresses specific needs in agricultural vision tasks that are not fully covered by general-purpose models.