Deep Learning in Precision Agriculture

Deep Learning in Precision Agriculture for Reducing Herbicide The use of herbicide in agriculture has skyrocketed in the past few decades. This trend has largely been caused by new genetically modified, herbicide resistant crops. Combating the ecological side-effects of chemical overspray as well as easing the economic burden of costly herbicides is where John Deere's Blue River Technology comes in. Blue River’s flagship product is See & Spray. An intelligent machine that utilizes deep learning to automatically detect and classify crops and weeds on-the-fly and uses precision sprayers to selectively spray weeds, saving vast quantities of chemicals in the process. This presentation will cover pixelwise semantic segmentation of imagery collected real-time in the field by See & Spray machines and how that information feeds is used for targeted spraying of unwanted weeds. On the fly detection of spray allows for a closed feedback loop control system where a GPU accelerated semantic autoencoder model works in tandem with the mechanically actuated sprayer system to achieve precision farming.

Who is this presentation for?
Technical experts in AI and agriculture

Prerequisite knowledge:
Deep Learning and Computer Vision

What you'll learn?
Semantic segmentation applications