Real-time kiwifruit detection in orchard using deep learning on Android™ smartphones for yield estimation

• Published in: Computers and electronics in agriculture Vol. 179; p. 105856
• Main Authors: Zhou, Zhongxian, Song, Zhenzhen, Fu, Longsheng, Gao, Fangfang, Li, Rui, Cui, Yongjie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.12.2020; Elsevier BV
• Subjects: Android; Artificial neural networks; Deep learning; Floating point arithmetic; InceptionV3; Kiwifruit; MobileNetV2; Quantization; Smartphones; Tensors; Yield estimation; Quantization; InceptionV3; MobileNetV2; Yield estimation; Android

•A KiwiDetector Android APP was developed to detect kiwifruits for yield estimation.•Kiwifruits were detected by two lightweight backbones MobileNetV2 and InceptionV3.•An 8-bit quantization was applied to compress model size and improve detection speed.•MobileNetV2 outperformed InceptionV3 in both t...