To tackle wildfires and improve forest biomass management, cost effective and reliable mowing and pruning robots are required. However, the development of visual perception systems for forestry robotics needs to be researched and explored to achieve safe solutions. This paper presents two main contributions: an annotated dataset and a benchmark between edge-computing hardware and deep learning models. The dataset is composed by nearly 5,400 annotated images. This dataset enabled to train nine object detectors: four SSD MobileNets, one EfficientDet, three YOLO-based detectors and YOLOR. These detectors were deployed and tested on three edge-computing hardware (TPU, CPU and GPU), and evaluated in terms of detection precision and inference time. The results showed that YOLOR was the best trunk detector achieving nearly 90% F1 score and an inference average time of 13.7 ms on GPU. This work will favour the development of advanced vision perception systems for robotics in forestry operations.
Tree Trunks Cross-Platform Detection Using Deep Learning Strategies for Forestry Operations
Lect. Notes in Networks, Syst.
Iberian Robotics conference ; 2022 ; Zaragoza, Spain November 23, 2022 - November 25, 2022
2022-11-19
13 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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