Marigold Flower Blooming Stage Detection in Complex Scene Environment using Faster RCNN with Data Augmentation

In recent years, flower growing has developed into a lucrative agricultural sector that provides employment and business opportunities for small and marginal growers in both urban and rural locations in India. One of the most often cultivated flowers for landscaping design is the Marigold flower. It is also widely used to create garlands for ceremonial and social occasions using loose flowers. Understanding the appropriate stage of harvesting for each plant species is essential to ensuring the quality of the flowers after they have been picked. It has been demonstrated that human assessors consistently used a category scoring system to evaluate various flowering stages. Deep learning and convolutional neural networks have the potential to revolutionize agriculture by enabling efficient analysis of large-scale data. In order to address the problem of Marigold flower stages detection and classification in complex real-time field scenarios, this study proposes a fine-tuned Faster RCNN with ResNet50 network coupled with data augmentation. Faster RCNN is a popular deep learning framework for object detection that uses a region proposal network to efficiently identify object locations and features in an image. The Marigold flower dataset was collected from three different Marigold fields in the Anand District of Gujarat State, India. The collection includes of photos that were taken outdoors in natural light at various heights, angles, and distances. We have developed and fine-tuned a Faster RCNN detection and classification model to be particularly sensitive to Marigold flowers, and we have compared the generated method's performance to that of other cutting-edge models to determine its accuracy and effectiveness.

@article{Patel2023,
  title     = {Marigold Flower Blooming Stage Detection in Complex Scene Environment using Faster RCNN with Data Augmentation},
  journal   = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
  volume    = {14},
  number    = {3},
  year      = {2023},
  publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
  author    = {Sanskruti Patel},
  doi       = {10.14569/IJACSA.2023.0140379},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2023.0140379}
}