APPLICATION OF MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS FOR CLASSIFICATION OF WEED VARIETIES

Abstract

The article considers the relevance of the introduction of intelligent weed detection systems, in order to save herbicides and pesticides, as well as to obtain environmentally friendly products. A brief review of the researchers' scientific works is carried out, which describes the methods of identification, classification and discrimination of weeds developed by them based on machine learning algorithms, convolutional neural networks and deep learning algorithms. This research paper presents a program for detecting pests of agricultural land using the algorithms K-Nearest Neighbors, Random Forest and Decision Tree. The data set is collected from 4 types of weeds, such as amaranthus, ambrosia, bindweed and bromus. According to the results of the assessment, the accuracy of weed detection by the classifiers K-Nearest Neighbors, Random Forest and Decision Tree was 83.3%, 87.5%, and 80%. Quantitative results obtained on real data demonstrate that the proposed approach can provide good results in classifying low-resolution images of weeds.