Predictive spectral analysis using an end-to-end deep model from hyperspectral images for high-throughput plant phenotyping

Abstract

The spectral reflectance signature of the plants contains rich information about their biophysical, physiological and chemical characteristics. Learning the patterns directly from the plant spectra is critical for predictive plant phenotyping applications. In this study, we developed an end-to-end deep learning model based on 1-D convolutional neural networks, called DeepRWC, to predict the relative water content (RWC) of plants directly from mean spectral reflectance. The proposed model incorporated a modified Inception module to learn multi-scale spectral features at different abstraction levels. To train the proposed network, maize plants grown under well-watered and drought-stressed treatments were imaged using push-broom style, top-view, visible near-infrared (VNIR) hyperspectral camera in the greenhouse environment. Results showed that our proposed model achieved good performance with an R² of 0.872 for RWC. The performance of the developed model was compared with two standard approaches, partial least squares regression (PLSR) and support vector machine regression (SVR) on two external test datasets. The quantitative analysis showed that the DeepRWC outperformed both linear (PLSR) and non-linear (SVR) approaches by achieving the lowest RMSE and better R² value on all test datasets included in the study. Our proposed DeepRWC eliminated the need for any preprocessing or dimensionality reduction, as in the case of other standard techniques (PLSR/SVR). These results confirmed the ability of DeepRWC to better predict the RWC of plants using spectral reflectance signature.

Plant phenotyping relevance

植物のハイパースペクトル画像から相対含水量を推定する深層学習手法を開発し、既存手法および外部データセットで性能比較・検証しており、フェノタイピング手法が中心である。

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