The real-time detection and counting of rice ears in fields is one of the most important methods for estimating rice yield. The traditional manual counting method has many disadvantages: it is time-consuming, inefficient and subjective. Therefore, the use of computer vision technology can improve the accuracy and efficiency of rice ear counting in the field. The contributions of this article are as follows. (1) This paper establishes a dataset containing 3300 rice ear samples, which represent various complex situations, including variable light and complex backgrounds, overlapping rice and overlapping leaves. The collected images were manually labeled, and a data enhancement method was used to increase the sample size. (2) This paper proposes a method that combines the LC-FCN (localization-based counting fully convolutional neural network) model based on transfer learning with the watershed algorithm for the recognition of dense rice images. The results show that the model is superior to traditional machine learning methods and the single-shot multibox detector (SSD) algorithm for target detection. Moreover, it is currently considered an advanced and innovative rice ear counting model. The mean absolute error (MAE) of the model on the 300-size test set is 2.99. The model can be used to calculate the number of rice ears in the field. In addition, it can provide reliable basic data for rice yield estimation and a rice dataset for research.
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