用多个专家模型的观察结果,让少样本植物病害分类更准。
DExNet: Combining Observations of Domain Adapted Critics for Leaf Disease Classification with Limited Data
- 通过融合九个领域适配的专家模型特征,提升小样本分类能力。
- 5-15样本下准确率达89%-94%,80样本时达98.09%,仅差1.2%于顶尖水平。
- 适合数据稀缺的农业病害识别场景,跨域表现优异。
尽管基于深度学习的模型广泛用于植物病害检测与分类,但其需大规模数据以学习泛化特征并达到最佳性能,这使得在样本有限情况下难以获得满意结果。本文提出一种少样本学习框架DExNet,通过整合多个专家批评者(critics)的观察来弥补训练数据不足。该方法首先从九个最先进的预训练CNN架构中提取特征嵌入作为‘观察’,这些架构通过一个公开的无重叠类别的叶病数据集进行领域适配。随后,这些观察被输入至‘特征融合模块’,最终送入由Bi-LSTM层组成的分类网络。该流程在PlantVillage数据集的10类番茄叶图像上进行评估,5-shot、10-shot和15-shot分类准确率分别为89.06%、92.46%和94.07%。此外,在80-shot条件下达到98.09±0.7%的准确率,仅比当前最优水平低1.2%,同时实现94.5%的训练数据量减少。该方法在单域、混合域及跨域场景下均优于现有少样本叶病分类工作,适用于实验室与真实环境。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
While deep learning-based architectures have been widely used for correctly detecting and classifying plant diseases, they require large-scale datasets to learn generalized features and achieve state-of-the-art performance. This poses a challenge for such models to obtain satisfactory performance in classifying leaf diseases with limited samples. This work proposes a few-shot learning framework, Domain-adapted Expert Network (DExNet), for plant disease classification that compensates for the lack of sufficient training data by combining observations of a number of expert critics. It starts with extracting the feature embeddings as 'observations' from nine 'critics' that are state-of-the-art pre-trained CNN-based architectures. These critics are 'domain adapted' using a publicly available leaf disease dataset having no overlapping classes with the specific downstream task of interest. The observations are then passed to the 'Feature Fusion Block' and finally to a classifier network consisting of Bi-LSTM layers. The proposed pipeline is evaluated on the 10 classes of tomato leaf images from the PlantVillage dataset, achieving promising accuracies of 89.06%, 92.46%, and 94.07%, respectively, for 5-shot, 10-shot, and 15-shot classification. Furthermore, an accuracy of 98.09+-0.7% has been achieved in 80-shot classification, which is only 1.2% less than state-of-the-art, allowing a 94.5% reduction in the training data requirement. The proposed pipeline also outperforms existing works on leaf disease classification with limited data in both laboratory and real-life conditions in single-domain, mixed-domain, and cross-domain scenarios.
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