Abstract
Cotton is a significant economic crop. It is vulnerable to aphids (Aphis gossypii Glovers) during the growth period. Rapid and early detection has become an important means to deal with aphids in cotton. In this study, the visible/near-infrared (Vis/NIR) hyperspectral imaging system (376–1044 nm) and machine learning methods were used to identify aphid infection in cotton leaves. Both tall and short cotton plants (Lumianyan 24) were inoculated with aphids, and the corresponding plants without aphids were used as control. The hyperspectral images (HSIs) were acquired five times at an interval of 5 days. The healthy and infected leaves were used to establish the datasets, with each leaf as a sample. The spectra and RGB images of each cotton leaf were extracted from the hyperspectral images for one-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) analysis. The hyperspectral images of each leaf were used for three-dimensional (3D) analysis. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) were used for identification and compared with conventional machine learning methods. For the extracted spectra, 1D CNN had a fine classification performance, and the classification accuracy could reach 98%. For RGB images, 2D CNN had a better classification performance. For HSIs, 3D CNN performed moderately and performed better than 2D CNN. On the whole, CNN performed relatively better than conventional machine learning methods. In the process of 1D, 2D, and 3D CNN visualization, the important wavelength ranges were analyzed in 1D and 3D CNN visualization, and the importance of wavelength ranges and spatial regions were analyzed in 2D and 3D CNN visualization. The overall results in this study illustrated the feasibility of using hyperspectral imaging combined with multi-dimensional CNN to detect aphid infection in cotton leaves, providing a new alternative for pest infection detection in plants.
Highlights
Cotton is rich in cellulose and is the largest source of natural textiles (Ma et al, 2016)
Compared with the RGB images, the hyperspectral images contained a lot of spectral information
The classification results of the 3D Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) used to identify aphid infection were better than 2D CNN and worse than 1D CNN
Summary
Cotton is rich in cellulose and is the largest source of natural textiles (Ma et al, 2016). It has important applications in the medical field and an important position in the global economy (Rather et al, 2017). Aphids (Aphis gossypii Glovers) are one of the most invasive pests in cotton plants (Wang et al, 2018). Once smallscale aphid pests occur in the cultivation area, the scale of the pests is likely to spread rapidly in a short time, and the cotton yield and quality will be reduced (Chen et al, 2018a)
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