Bacterial-fungicidal vine disease detection with proximal aerial images.

Abstract

Vine disease detection is considered one of the most crucial components in precision viticulture. It serves as an input for several further modules, including mapping, automatic treatment, and spraying devices. In the last few years, several approaches have been proposed for detecting vine disease based on indoor laboratory conditions or large-scale satellite images integrated with machine learning tools. However, these methods have several limitations, including laboratory-specific conditions or limited visibility into plant-related diseases. To overcome these limitations, this work proposes a low-altitude drone flight approach through which a comprehensive dataset about various vine diseases from a large-scale European dataset is generated. The dataset contains typical diseases such as downy mildew or black rot affecting the large variety of grapes including Muscat of Hamburg, Alphonse Lavallée, Grasă de Cotnari, Rkatsiteli, Napoca, Pinot blanc, Pinot gris, Chambourcin, Fetească regală, Sauvignon blanc, Muscat Ottonel, Merlot, and Seyve-Villard 18402. The dataset contains 10,000 images and more than 100,000 annotated leaves, verified by viticulture specialists. Grape bunches are also annotated for yield estimation. Further, tests were made against state-of-the-art detection methods on this dataset, focusing also on viable solutions on embedded devices, including Android-based phones or Nvidia Jetson boards with GPU. The datasets, as well as the customized embedded models, are available on the project webpage.

Plant phenotyping relevance

ブドウ葉の病徴を低高度ドローン画像で検出する大規模データセットを構築し、葉アノテーションと手法比較・組込み機器での評価を行っており、植物状態の画像ベース計測が中心です。

Code and data availability

The authors state their UAV vine-disease dataset (10,000 images, 100,000+ annotated leaves), preprocessing scripts, and pre-trained embedded models are publicly available on the project website, whose URL (github.com/tamaslevente/vineye) appears in the supplied blocks. Other URLs (ultralytics, CVAT, labelImg, Zenodo, k