With changing climate, it is necessary to investigate how different plants are af- fected by drought, which is the starting point for this project. The proposed project aims to apply Machine Learning tools to learn predictive patterns of Scots pine seedlings in response to drought conditions by measuring the canopy area and growing rate of the seedlings presented in the time-lapse images. There are 5 different families of Scots Pine researched in this project, therefore 5 different sets of time-lapse images will be used as the data set. The research group has previously created a method for finding the canopy area and computing the growth rate for the different families. Furthermore, the seedlings rotate in an individual pattern each day, which could prove to affect their tolerance to drought according to the research group and is currently not being measured. Therefore, we propose a method using an object detection model, such as Mask R-CNN, to detect and find each seedling’s respective region of interest. With the obtained region of interest, the goal will be to apply an object-tracking algorithm, such as a Dense Optical Flow Algorithm. Using different methods, such as the Shi-Tomasi or Lucas Kanade method, we aim to find feature points and track motion between images to find the direction and velocity of the rotation for each seedling. The tracking algorithms will then be evaluated based on their performance in estimating the rotation features against an annotated sub-set of the time-lapse data set.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:umu-227608 |
| Date | January 2024 |
| Creators | Gustafsson, Nils |
| Publisher | Umeå universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | UMNAD ; 1505 |
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