Two-step transfer learning for semantic plant segmentation

Shunsuke Sakurai, Hideaki Uchiyama, Atsushi Shimada, Daisaku Arita, Rin ichiro Taniguchi

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Abstract

We discuss the applicability of a fully convolutional network (FCN), which provides promising performance in semantic segmentation tasks, to plant segmentation tasks. The challenge lies in training the network with a small dataset because there are not many samples in plant image datasets, as compared to object image datasets such as ImageNet and PASCAL VOC datasets. The proposed method is inspired by transfer learning, but involves a two-step adaptation. In the first step, we apply transfer learning from a source domain that contains many objects with a large amount of labeled data to a major category in the plant domain. Then, in the second step, category adaptation is performed from the major category to a minor category with a few samples within the plant domain. With leaf segmentation challenge (LSC) dataset, the experimental results confirm the effectiveness of the proposed method such that F-measure criterion was, for instance, 0.953 for the A2 dataset, which was 0.355 higher than that of direct adaptation, and 0.527 higher than that of non-adaptation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICPRAM 2018 - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods
EditorsMaria De Marsico, Gabriella Sanniti di Baja, Ana Fred
PublisherSciTePress
Pages332-339
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9789897582769
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018
Event7th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods, ICPRAM 2018 - Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
Duration: Jan 16 2018Jan 18 2018

Publication series

NameICPRAM 2018 - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods
Volume2018-January

Other

Other7th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods, ICPRAM 2018
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityFunchal, Madeira
Period1/16/181/18/18

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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