IP Library Granted Patent US 11,580,729
Granted Patent B2
US 11,580,729 · App. 16/692,779 · Granted Feb 14, 2023

Agricultural pattern analysis system

Inventors: Naira Hovakymian (Champaign, IL); Hrant Khachatrian (Yerevan, AM); Karen Ghandilyan (Champaign, IL)
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Patent No.
US 11,580,729
App. No.
16/692,779
Granted
Feb 14, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A pattern recognition system including an image gathering unit that gathers at least one digital representation of a field, an image analysis unit that pre-processes the at least one digital representation of a field, an annotation unit that provides a visualization of at least one channel for each of the at least one digital representation of the field, where the image analysis unit generates a plurality of image samples from each of the at least one digital representation of the field, and the image analysis unit splits each of the image samples into a plurality of categories.

Claims (32)

1. A pattern recognition system including:

an image gathering unit that gathers digital at least one representation of a field;

an image analysis unit that pre-processes the at least one representation of a field;

an annotation unit that provides a visualization of at least one channel for each of the at least one digital representation of the field;

wherein,

the each of the samples is 512 pixels by 512 pixels and each of the samples is randomly split using a train, val, test ratio,

the image analysis unit generates a plurality of image samples from each of the at least one digital representation of the field, and

the image analysis unit splits each of the image samples into a plurality of categories.

2. The pattern recognition system of claim 1 , wherein the annotation unit separates each digital representation into RGB, NIR and NDVI channels.

3. The pattern recognition system of claim 1 , wherein adjacent samples are compared for overlap.

4. The pattern recognition system of claim 3 , wherein a sample is discarded if the sample has more than 30% overlap with an adjacent sample.

5. The pattern recognition system of claim 1 , wherein the image analysis unit randomly splits each sample into at least three categories.

6. The pattern recognition system of claim 1 , wherein the image analysis unit generates a semantic map by applying a modified FPN model to each image sample.

7. The pattern recognition system of claim 6 , wherein the FPN model encoder is a ResNet.

8. The pattern recognition system of claim 7 , wherein the FPN decoder includes two 3×3 and one 1×1 convolution layer.

9. The pattern recognition system of claim 8 , wherein each 3×3 convolution layer includes batch normalization layer and a leaky ReLU layer.

10. A method of recognizing a pattern in an image by an image recognition unit including a processor and a memory, with a program in the memory executing the steps of:

gathering at least one digital representation of a field;

pre-processing the at least one representation of a field;

providing a visualization of at least one channel for each of the at least one digital representation of the field;

generating a plurality of image samples from each of the at least one digital representation of the field, and

splitting each of the image samples into a plurality of categories,

wherein,

each of the image samples is 512 pixels by 512 pixels and each of the samples is randomly split using a train, val, test ratio.

11. The method of claim 10 , including the step of separating each digital representation into RGB, NIR and NDVI channels.

12. The method of claim 10 , wherein adjacent samples are compared for overlap.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein a sample is discarded if the sample has more than 30% overlap with an adjacent sample.

14. The method of claim 10 , including the step of randomly splitting each sample into at least three categories.

15. The method of claim 10 , including the step of generating a semantic map by applying a modified FPN model to each image sample.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the FPN model encoder is a ResNet.

17. The method of claim 16 , wherein the FPN decoder includes two 3×3 and one 1×1 convolution layer.

18. The method of claim 17 , wherein each 3×3 convolution layer includes batch normalization layer and a leaky ReLU layer.

Assignments (1)
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Mar 9, 2022
From: INTELINAIR, INC.
To: MCKINSEY & COMPANY, INC. UNITED STATES
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Continuity (1)
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