The automatic recognition of crop diseases based on visual perception algorithms is one of the important research directions in the current prevention and control of crop diseases. However, there are two issues to be addressed in corn disease identification: (1) A lack of multicategory corn disease image datasets that can be used for disease recognition model training. (2) The existing methods for identifying corn diseases have difficulty satisfying the dual requirements of disease recognition speed and accuracy in actual corn planting scenarios. Therefore, a corn diseases recognition system based on pretrained VGG16 is investigated and devised, termed as VGNet, which consists of batch normalization (BN), global average pooling (GAP) and L2 normalization. The performance of the proposed method is improved by using transfer learning for the task of corn disease classification. Experiment results show that the Adam optimizer is more suitable for crop disease recognition than the stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithm. When the learning rate is 0.001, the model performance reaches a highest accuracy of 98.3% and a lowest loss of 0.035. After data augmentation, the precision of nine corn diseases is between 98.1% and 100%, and the recall value ranges from 98.6% to 100%. What is more, the designed lightweight VGNet only occupies 79.5 MB of space, and the testing time for 230 images is 75.21 s, which demonstrates better transferability and accuracy in crop disease image recognition.

Improper wearing of personal protective equipment may lead to safety incidents; this paper proposes a combined detection algorithm for personal protective equipment based on the lightweight YOLOv4 model for mobile terminals. To ensure high detection accuracy, a channel and layer pruning method (CLSlim) to lightweight algorithm is used to reduce computing power consumption and improve the detection speed on the basis of the YOLOv4 network. This method applies L1 regularization and gradient sparse training on the scaling factor of the BN layer in the convolutional module: global pruning threshold and local safety threshold are used to eliminate redundant channels, the layer pruning threshold is used to prune the structure of the shortcuts in the Cross Stage Partial (CSP) module for inference speed improvement, and finally, a lightweight network model is obtained. The experiment improves the YOLOv4 and YOLOv4-Tiny models for CLSlim lightweight separately in GTX2080ti environment. Results show that (1) CLSlim-YOLOv4 compresses the YOLOv4 model parameters by 98.2% and increases the inference speed by 1.8 times with mAP loss of only 2.1% and (2) CLSlim-YOLOv4-Tiny compresses the original model parameters by 74.3% and increases the inference speed by 1.1 times with mAP increase of 0.8%, which certificates that this improved lightweight algorithm serves better for the real-time ability and accuracy of combined detection on PPE with mobile terminals.

Modality differences and intra-class differences have been hot research problems in the field of cross-modality person re-identification currently. In this paper, we propose a cross-modality person re-identification method based on joint middle modality and representation learning. To reduce the modality differences, a middle modal generator is used to map different modal images to a unified feature space to generate middle modality images. A two-stream network with parameter sharing is used to extract the combined features of the original image and the middle modality image. In addition, a multi-granularity pooling strategy combining global features and local features is used to improve the representation learning capability of the model and further reduce the modality differences. To reduce the intra-class differences, the model is further optimized by combining distribution consistency loss, label smoothing cross-entropy loss, and hetero-center triplet loss to reduce the intra-class distance and accelerate the model convergence. In this paper, we use the publicly available datasets RegDB and SYSU-MM01 for validation. The results show that the proposed approach in this paper reaches 68.11% mAP in All Search mode for the SYSU-MM01 dataset and 86.54% mAP in VtI mode for the RegDB dataset, with a performance improvement of 3.29% and 3.29%, respectively, which demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.