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Research on weeds identification based on K-means feature learning

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This paper aims to overcome the unstable identification results and weak generalization ability in feature extraction based on manual design to realize the automatic weeds identification. On the basis of unsupervised feature learning identification model, K-means clustering algorithm after data preprocessing is used to realize feature learning and construct feature dictionary. Then this feature dictionary is used to extract features from labeled data and train the classification model to realize the automatic weeds identification. In this process, this paper focuses on the effect of parameters such as the clustering number to identification accuracy under single-layer network structure, and the identification accuracy between the single-layer and the two-layer network structure was compared and analyzed. Experimental results show that identification rate can be improved by increasing the network levels, as well as fine-tuning the parameters under the premise of selecting reasonable parameters.

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Funding

This study was funded by Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Complex System Control and Intelligent Information Processing (Grant No. 2016CP01), Xi’an Science and Technology Plan Projects (Grant No. NC1504(2)), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 31101075, 61402375), Natural Science Fundamental Research Plan of Shaanxi Province (Grant No. 2016JM6038), Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, NWSUAF (Grant No. 2452015060).

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  1. College of Information Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, People’s Republic of China

    JingLei Tang, Dong Wang & LiJun He

  2. Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Complex System Control and Intelligent Information Processing, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an, 710048, People’s Republic of China

    JingLei Tang & Jing Xin

  3. School of Mathematics and Information Science and Technology, Hebei Normal University of Science and Technology, Qinhuangdao, 066004, People’s Republic of China

    ZhiGuang Zhang

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Tang, J., Zhang, Z., Wang, D. et al. Research on weeds identification based on K-means feature learning. Soft Comput 22, 7649–7658 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-018-3125-x

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