Total Fresh Weight Estimation Model for Herbaceous Plant Based on Improved YOLOv5 and 3D Point Clouds

Abstract

The real-time quantitative estimation of herbaceous plant growth status holds significant potential for investigating fertilization effects, predicting growth curves, and enhancing crop yield. This study constructed a growth quantification model using an improved YOLOv5 architecture integrated with 3D point cloud processing, with pak choi as an exemplar crop. To improve the recognition accuracy while reducing the number of parameters, we employed a lightweight YOLOv5 model enhanced with Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling and Ghost convolution modules for individual pak choi plant localization and growth stage classification. We also developed a segmentation method based on the HSV color space to segment leaves. To estimate the total fresh weight of individual plants, we first calculated the leaf surface area by generating a triangular mesh from the corresponding leaf point clouds and predicted the chlorophyll content using a stacking ensemble model. Subsequently, to address the leaf occlusion issues, the leaf pixel ratio in the images, leaf surface area, and mean leaf chlorophyll content were collectively used as independent variables. Finally, a multiple linear regression model was developed to accurately estimate the total fresh weight of individual pak choi plants. Experimental results demonstrate that the modified YOLOv5 architecture achieves a 3.5% improvement in mAP@0.5 (reaching 96%) and a 4.66% increase in F1-score (attaining 90.26%), while significantly reducing the computational complexity compared to the baseline model. Statistical tests verified that the fitted equation could explain 79% of the variation in the total fresh weight, with an average relative error of 12.16%. This enables non-contact and accurate measurement of the pak choi growth status.

Plant phenotyping relevance

YOLOv5、3D点群、葉面積・クロロフィル推定を統合し、個体の生体重という植物形質を非接触推定する手法が研究の中心である。

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