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Author(s): Yangfan Cao, Wenchao Wang, Ying Zhao* and Qun Sun

DOI: 10.2174/1872212118666230508163955

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Research on Visual Inspection Method of Tree Whitening Quality based on Multi-level Feature Fusion

Article ID: e080523216685 Pages: 8

  • * (Excluding Mailing and Handling)

Abstract

Background: At present, the traditional manual whitewashing method is used in tree whitewashing in China. The quality of tree whitening can only be judged by the naked eye.

Objective: Up to now, the quality of tree whitewashing is still judged manually. In order to improve work efficiency, an automatic evaluation method of tree whitewashing quality based on multi-level feature fusion is proposed.

Methods: The images extract texture features from white-washed trees (gray-level co-occurrence matrix) and shape features (gradient direction histogram) from pixel-level fusion to obtain a global characteristic matrix. Using a support vector machine (SVM), random forests, and clustering algorithm (KNN), three classifiers were selected to identify the integration characteristics of the training test. In order to reduce the correlation of feature information and improve the execution efficiency of the classifier, the global feature matrix was optimized by combining principal component analysis (PCA) with pixel-level fusion and feature-level fusion.

Results: The experiment results showed that the classification accuracy of the support vector machine is 94.00%, which is higher than that of the random forest classifier (92.67) and KNN classifier (92.67%). Meanwhile, the support vector machine is superior to the other two classification algorithms in recall rate, accuracy rate, and algorithm execution efficiency. The results showed that the execution efficiency of each classification algorithm was improved after the optimization of the feature data. The support vector machine classification algorithm is more stable than the other two algorithms.

Conclusion: The feature fusion method combined with PCA can improve the execution efficiency and recognition precision of classifiers to a certain extent. For the feature matrix obtained by different data processing methods, the SVM classifier performs more stably and reliably than the random forest classifier and KNN in the inspection of tree whitening quality.

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