Mapping grapevine leafroll disease epidemics from UAV images

Abstract

Grapevine Leafroll Disease (GLD) poses a significant economic burden on the wine industry in major wine-producing regions. Conventional methods of phenotyping GLD are inefficient and delay vineyard management decisions. The emergence of affordable Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) provides unprecedented opportunities for GLD high-throughput phenotyping. However, detecting GLD-infected grapevines at the canopy level using UAV images is still a challenge due to the subtle differences between GLD canopy features and background. In this paper, we propose a GLD Detector (GLDD) for mapping GLD epidemics from UAV images. A new attention mechanism module, namely, Channel Attention with Transformers (CAT) is proposed to alleviate the difficulty of extracting high-resolution features from the elongated canopy. We redesigned YOLOv7-tiny for GLDD and conducted a series of ablation experiments to evaluate its performance. Experimental results show that GLDD outperforms YOLOv7-tiny by 3.1% and YOLOv6-tiny by 6.5%, reaching an accuracy of 88.2%. In comparison to several one-stage object detectors such as YOLOv5, YOLOX, PP-YOLOE, and YOLO-FaceV2, GLDD obtains the best detection results. Additionally, compared to convolutional-based detectors such as Faster-RCNN and transformer-based detector SwinT, GLDD performs better in speed and accuracy. Furthermore, GLD-infected grapevine distribution is also mapped by using GLDD detection results at the field scale.

Plant phenotyping relevance

UAV画像からブドウ樹の葉巻病感染状態を推定する検出手法を開発・比較評価しており、植物病害状態のフェノタイピングが中心です。

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