Causality-inspired crop pest recognition based on Decoupled Feature Learning.

Journal: Pest management science
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Ensuring the efficient recognition and management of crop pests is crucial for maintaining the balance in global agricultural ecosystems and ecological harmony. Deep learning-based methods have shown promise in crop pest recognition. However, prevailing methods often fail to address a critical issue: biased pest training dataset distribution stemming from the tendency to collect images primarily in certain environmental contexts, such as paddy fields. This oversight hampers recognition accuracy when encountering pest images dissimilar to training samples, highlighting the need for a novel approach to overcome this limitation.

Authors

  • Tao Hu
    Department of Preventive Dentistry, State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
  • Jianming Du
    Institute of Intelligent Machines, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, China.
  • Keyu Yan
    Science Island Branch of Graduate School, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.
  • Wei Dong
    Department of Cardiology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.
  • Jie Zhang
    College of Physical Education and Health, Linyi University, Linyi, Shandong, China.
  • Jun Wang
    Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences and the Department of Neurology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
  • Chengjun Xie
    Institute of Intelligent Machines, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China.