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Recognition Method of Mature Strawberry Based on Improved SSD Deep Convolution Neural Network

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Recognition and localization of ripe strawberries is the basis of strawberry automatic picking system. Aiming at the problems of outdoor illumination change, uneven brightness, mutual occlusion of fruits and leaves, low recognition rate and poor generalization ability of traditional recognition methods, this paper proposes a mature strawberry target detection method based on improved single shot multibox detector (SSD) in-depth learning. The lightweight network MobileNet V2 was used as the basic network in SSD model to reduce the time spent in extracting image features and the amount of computation. The information loss caused by downsampling operation was avoided while synthesizing multi-scale features. The target of strawberry image recognition was established through the TensorFlow depth neural network framework. The results showed that the mAP of the model test set was 82.38%, the recognition accuracy of the improved SSD model was 97.4%, the recall rate was 94.5%, and the average recognition time of single frame image was 125 ms. This method can effectively recognize mature strawberries in natural environment and provide technical support for automatic production of strawberry harvesting.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China No. 61504072.

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Liu, Z., Xiao, D. (2020). Recognition Method of Mature Strawberry Based on Improved SSD Deep Convolution Neural Network. In: Pan, L., Liang, J., Qu, B. (eds) Bio-inspired Computing: Theories and Applications. BIC-TA 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1160. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3415-7_22

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