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Record W4415373235 · doi:10.3389/fpls.2025.1665672

Automatic detection and counting of wheat seedling based on unmanned aerial vehicle images

2025· article· en· W4415373235 on OpenAlexaff
Hecang Zang, Yanjing Wang, Yilong Peng, Qing Zhao, Jie Zhang, Guoqiang Li

Bibliographic record

VenueFrontiers in Plant Science · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEarth and Planetary Sciences
TopicRemote Sensing and Land Use
Canadian institutionsMinistry of Agriculture
FundersHenan Academy of Agricultural Sciences
KeywordsSeedlingFeature (linguistics)Mean squared errorField (mathematics)Word error ratePosition (finance)Encoder

Abstract

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Wheat is an important food crop, wheat seedling count is very important to estimate the emergence rate and yield prediction. Timely and accurate detection of wheat seedling count is of great significance for field management and variety breeding. In actual production, the method of artificial field investigation and statistics of wheat seedlings is time-consuming and laborious. Aiming at the problems of small targets, dense distribution and easy occlusion of wheat seedling in the field, a wheat seedling number detection model (DM_IOC_fpn) combining local and global features was proposed in this study. Firstly, the wheat seedling image is preprocessed, and the wheat seedling dataset is built by using the point annotation method. Secondly, the density enhanced encoder module is introduced to improve the network structure and extract local and global contextual feature information of wheat seedling. Finally, the total loss function is constructed by introducing counting loss, classification loss, and regression loss to optimize the model, so as to enable accurate judgment of wheat seedling position and category information. Experiment on self-built dataset have shown that the root mean square error (RMSE) and mean absolute error (MAE) of DM_IOC_fpn were 2.91 and 2.23, respectively, which were 1.78 and 1.04 lower than the original IOCFormer. Compared with the current mainstream object detection models, DM_IOC_fpn has better counting performance. DM_IOC_fpn can accurately detect the number of small target wheat seedling, and better solve the problem of occlusion and overlapping of wheat seedling, so as to achieve the accurate detection of wheat seedling, which provides important theoretical and technical support for automatic counting of wheat seedlings and yield prediction in complex field environment.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.013
Threshold uncertainty score0.026

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.005
GPT teacher head0.194
Teacher spread0.189 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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