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A Fast Deployable Instance Elimination Segmentation Algorithm Based on Watershed Transform for Dense Cereal Grain Images

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  • Junling Liang

    (School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China)

  • Heng Li

    (School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
    School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China)

  • Fei Xu

    (Technical Center for Animal Plant and Food Inspection and Quarantine of Shanghai Customs, Shanghai 200002, China)

  • Jianpin Chen

    (School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China)

  • Meixuan Zhou

    (School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China)

  • Liping Yin

    (Technical Center for Animal Plant and Food Inspection and Quarantine of Shanghai Customs, Shanghai 200002, China)

  • Zhenzhen Zhai

    (Network & Information Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China)

  • Xinyu Chai

    (School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China)

Abstract

Cereal grains are a vital part of the human diet. The appearance quality and size distribution of cereal grains play major roles as deciders or indicators of market acceptability, storage stability, and breeding. Computer vision is popular in completing quality assessment and size analysis tasks, in which an accurate instance segmentation is a key step to guaranteeing the smooth completion of tasks. This study proposes a fast deployable instance segmentation method based on a generative marker-based watershed segmentation algorithm, which combines two strategies (one strategy for optimizing kernel areas and another for comprehensive segmentation) to overcome the problems of over-segmentation and under-segmentation for images with dense and small targets. Results show that the average segmentation accuracy of our method reaches 98.73%, which is significantly higher than the marker-based watershed segmentation algorithm (82.98%). To further verify the engineering practicality of our method, we count the size distribution of segmented cereal grains. The results keep a high degree of consistency with the manually sketched ground truth. Moreover, our proposed algorithm framework can be used as a great reference in other segmentation tasks of dense targets.

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  • Junling Liang & Heng Li & Fei Xu & Jianpin Chen & Meixuan Zhou & Liping Yin & Zhenzhen Zhai & Xinyu Chai, 2022. "A Fast Deployable Instance Elimination Segmentation Algorithm Based on Watershed Transform for Dense Cereal Grain Images," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 12(9), pages 1-14, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jagris:v:12:y:2022:i:9:p:1486-:d:916664
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    1. Jinbo Zhou & Shan Zeng & Yulong Chen & Zhen Kang & Hao Li & Zhongyin Sheng, 2023. "A Method of Polished Rice Image Segmentation Based on YO-LACTS for Quality Detection," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 13(1), pages 1-16, January.

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