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Precision agriculture system is an arising idea that refers to overseeing farms utilizing current information and communication technologies to improve the quantity and quality of yields while advancing the human work required. The…
This paper addresses the critical need for efficient and accurate weed segmentation from drone video in precision agriculture. A quality-aware modular deep-learning framework is proposed that addresses common image degradation by analyzing…
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Robust weed detection remains a challenging task in precision weeding, requiring not only potent weed detection models but also large-scale, labeled data. However, the labeled data adequate for model training is practically difficult to…
This paper presents SWNet, a bimodal end-to-end cross-spectral network specifically engineered for the detection of camouflaged weeds in dense agricultural environments. Plant camouflage, characterized by homochromatic blending where…
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