Publication detail

A System Using Artificial Intelligence to Detect and Scare Bird Flocks in the Protection of Ripening Fruit

MARCOŇ, P. JANOUŠEK, J. POKORNÝ, J. NOVOTNÝ, J. VLACHOVÁ HUTOVÁ, E. ŠIRŮČKOVÁ, A. ČÁP, M. LÁZNIČKOVÁ, J. KADLEC, R. RAICHL, P. DOHNAL, P. STEINBAUER, M. GESCHEIDTOVÁ, E.

Original Title

A System Using Artificial Intelligence to Detect and Scare Bird Flocks in the Protection of Ripening Fruit

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

Flocks of birds may cause major damage to fruit crops in the ripening phase. This problem is addressed by various methods for bird scaring; in many cases, however, the birds become accustomed to the distraction, and the applied scaring procedure loses its purpose. To help eliminate the difficulty, we present a system to detect flocks and to trigger an actuator that will scare the objects only when a flock passes through the monitored space. The actual detection is performed with artificial intelligence utilizing a convolutional neural network. Before teaching the network, we employed videocameras and a differential algorithm to detect all items moving in the vineyard. Such objects revealed in the images were labeled and then used in training, testing, and validating the network. The assessment of the detection algorithm required evaluating the parameters precision, recall, and F1 score. In terms of function, the algorithm is implemented in a module consisting of a microcomputer and a connected videocamera. When a flock is detected, the microcontroller will generate a signal to be wirelessly transmitted to the module, whose task is to trigger the scaring actuator.

Keywords

bird detection; convolutional neural network; deterrent system; flocks of birds; fruit; fruit crops; starlings

Authors

MARCOŇ, P.; JANOUŠEK, J.; POKORNÝ, J.; NOVOTNÝ, J.; VLACHOVÁ HUTOVÁ, E.; ŠIRŮČKOVÁ, A.; ČÁP, M.; LÁZNIČKOVÁ, J.; KADLEC, R.; RAICHL, P.; DOHNAL, P.; STEINBAUER, M.; GESCHEIDTOVÁ, E.

Released

20. 6. 2021

Publisher

MDPI

Location

BASEL

ISBN

1424-8220

Periodical

SENSORS

Year of study

21

Number

12

State

Swiss Confederation

Pages from

1

Pages to

16

Pages count

16

URL

https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/12/4244/htm

Full text in the Digital Library

http://hdl.handle.net/11012/200491

BibTex

@article{BUT171859,
  author="Petr {Marcoň} and Jiří {Janoušek} and Josef {Pokorný} and Josef {Novotný} and Eliška {Vlachová Hutová} and Anna {Širůčková} and Martin {Čáp} and Jana {Lázničková} and Radim {Kadlec} and Petr {Raichl} and Přemysl {Dohnal} and Miloslav {Steinbauer} and Eva {Gescheidtová}",
  title="A System Using Artificial Intelligence to Detect and Scare Bird Flocks in the Protection of Ripening Fruit",
  journal="SENSORS",
  year="2021",
  volume="21",
  number="12",
  pages="1--16",
  doi="10.3390/s21124244",
  issn="1424-8220",
  url="https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/12/4244/htm"
}