Affiliation:
1. Tongda College of Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Yangzhou 225127, China
Abstract
Leaf vein segmentation is crucial in species classification and smart agriculture. The existing methods combine manual features and machine learning techniques to segment coarse leaf veins. However, the extraction of the intricate patterns is time consuming. To address the issues, we propose a coarse-to-fine two-stage hybrid network termed TTH-Net, which combines a transformer and CNN to accurately extract veins. Specifically, the proposed TTH-Net consists of two stages and a cross-stage semantic enhancement module. The first stage utilizes the Vision Transformer (base version) to extract globally high-level feature representations. Based on these features, the second stage identifies fine-grained vein features via CNN. To enhance the interaction between the two stages, a cross-stage semantic enhancement module is designed to integrate the strengths of the transformer and CNN, which also improves the segmentation accuracy of the decoder. Extensive experiments on the public dataset LVN are conducted, and the results prove that TTH-Net has significant advantages over other methods in leaf vein segmentation.
Funder
Tongda College of Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Subject
Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes,Computer Science Applications,Process Chemistry and Technology,General Engineering,Instrumentation,General Materials Science
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