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Towards Reliable and Efficient Vegetation Segmentation for Australian Wheat Data Analysis

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Automated crop data analysis plays an important role in modern Australian agriculture. As one of the key procedures of analysis, vegetation segmentation, which aims to predict pixel-level labels of vegetation images, has recently demonstrated advanced results on benchmark datasets. However, the promising results are built upon the assumption that the test data and the training data always follow an identical distribution. Due to the differences in vegetation species, country, or illumination conditions, such assumptions are commonly violated in the real-world scenario. As a pilot study, this work confirms the model pre-trained on worldwide vegetation data has a degradation issue when being applied to the Australian wheat data. Instead of conducting expensive pixel-level annotation of Australian wheat data, we propose a self-training strategy that incorporates confidence estimated pseudo-labeling of the wheat data in the training process to close the distribution gap. Meanwhile, to reduce the computational cost, we equip the lightweight transformer framework with a token clustering and reconstruction module. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that the proposed network can achieve 6.4% higher mIOU and 8.6% lower computational costs over the baseline methods.

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Yuan, B., Wang, Z., Yu, X. (2024). Towards Reliable and Efficient Vegetation Segmentation for Australian Wheat Data Analysis. In: Bao, Z., Borovica-Gajic, R., Qiu, R., Choudhury, F., Yang, Z. (eds) Databases Theory and Applications. ADC 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14386. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47843-7_9

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