Evaluation Model of Rice Seedling Production Line Seeding Quality Based on Deep Learning

Abstract

A critical precondition for realizing mechanized transplantation in rice cultivation is the implementation of seedling tray techniques. To augment the efficacy of seeding, a precise evaluation of the quality of rice seedling cultivation in these trays is imperative. This research centers on the analysis of rice seedling tray images, employing deep learning as the foundational technology. The aim is to construct a computational model capable of autonomously evaluating seeding quality within the ambit of intelligent seedling cultivation processes. This study proposes a virtual grid-based image segmentation preprocessing method. It involves dividing the complete image of a rice seedling tray into several grid images. These grid images are then classified and marked using an improved ResNet50 model that integrates the SE attention mechanism with the Adam optimizer. Finally, the objective of detecting missing seeding areas is achieved by reassembling the marked grid images. The experimental results demonstrate that the improved ResNet50 model, integrating the SE attention mechanism and employing an initial learning rate of 0.01 over 50 iterations, attains a test set accuracy of 95.82%. This accuracy surpasses that of the AlexNet, DenseNet, and VGG16 models by respective margins of 4.55%, 2.07%, and 2.62%. This study introduces an innovative model for the automatic assessment of rice seeding quality. This model is capable of rapidly evaluating the seeding quality during the seedling phase; precisely identifying the locations of missing seeds in individual seedling trays; and effectively calculating the missing seed rate for each tray. Such precision in assessment is instrumental for optimizing seedling processes