Detection of the foreign object positions in agricultural soils using Mask-RCNN

Objects in agricultural soils will seriously affect the farming operations of agricultural machinery.At present,it still relies on human experience to judge abnormal Gounrd-penetrting Radar(GPR)signals.It is difficult for traditional image processing technology to form a general positioning method for the randomness and diversity characteristics of GPR signals in soil.Although many scholars had researched a variety of image-processing techniques,most methods lack robustness.In this study,the deep learning algorithm Mask Region-based Convolutional Neural Network(Mask-RCNN)and a geometric model were combined to improve the GPR positioning accuracy.First,a soil stratification experiment was set to classify the physical parameters of the soil and study the attenuation law of electromagnetic waves.Secondly,a SOIL-GPR geometric model was proposed,which can be combined with Mask-RCNN's MASK geometric size to predict object sizes.The results proved the effectiveness and accuracy of the model for position detection and evaluation of objects in soils;then,the improved Mask RCNN method was used to compare the feature extraction accuracy of U-Net and Fully Convolutional Networks(FCN);Finally,the operating speed of agricultural machinery was simulated and designed the A-B survey line experiment.The detection accuracy was evaluated by several indicators,such as the survey line direction,soil depth false alarm rate,Mean Average Precision(mAP),and Intersection over Union(IoU).The results showed that pixel-level segmentation and positioning based on Mask RCNN can improve the accuracy of the position detection of objects in agricultural soil effectively,and the average error of depth prediction is 2.87 cm.The results showed that the detection technology proposed in this study integrates the advantage of soil environmental parameters,geometric models,and artificial intelligence algorithms to provide a high-precision and technical solution for the GPR non-destructive detection of soils.

Modeling effectiveness and identification of multi-scale objects in farmland soils with improved Yee-FDTD methods

Finite-Difference Time-Domain(FDTD)is the most popular time-domain approach in computational electromagnetics.Due to the Courant-Friedrich-Levy(CFL)condition and the perfect match layer(PML)boundary precision,FDTD cannot simulate soil medium whose surface is connected by multiple straight lines or curves(multi-scale)accurately and efficiently,which greatly limits the application of FDTD method to simulate buried objects in soils.Firstly,this study proposed the absorption boundary and adopted two typical perfect matching layers(UPML and CPML)to compare their absorption effects,and then using the three forms of improved Yee-FDTD algorithm,alternating-direction implicit(ADI-FDTD),unconditionally stable(US-FDTD)and hybrid implicit explicit finite time-domain(HIE-FDTD)to divide and contrast the boundary model effects.It showed that the HIE-FDTD was suitable for inversion of multi-scale structure object modeling,while ADI-FDTD and US-FDTD were ideal for single-boundary objects in both uniaxial perfectly matched layer(UMPL)and convolution perfectly matched layer(CPML)finite element space.After that,all the models were tested by computer performance for their simulated efficiency.When simulating single boundary objects,UPML-US-FDTD and ADI-FDTD could achieve the ideal results,and in the boundary inversion of multi-scale objects,HIE-FDTD modeling results and efficiency were the best.Test modeling speeds of CPML-HIE-FDTD were compared with three kinds of waveform sources,Ricker,Blackman-Harris and Gaussian.Finally,under the computer condition in which the CPU was i5-8250,the HIE-FDTD model still had better performance than the traditional Yee-FDTD forward modeling algorithm.For modeling multi-scale objects in farmland soils,the methods used CPML combined with the HIE-FDTD were the most efficient and accurate ways.This study can solve the problem that the traditional FDTD algorithm cannot construct non-mesh objects by utilizing the diversity characteristics of Yee cell elements.