Accurate Co-Segmentation in High-Throughput And High Dimensional Plant
Image Sequences
Abstract
Cosegmentation is a recent and rapidly emerging and rapidly growing
extension of segmentation, which aims to detect the common object(s) in
a group of images. Current cosegmentation methods are ideal and
effective only for certain dataset types with limited features that
still produce errors making it difficult to obtain detailed metrics of
object parts. We propose to build a unified, trainable framework that
incorporates multiple features of a high-throughput dataset’s segmented
images from multiple algorithms using cosegmentation. Specifically, we
propose a novel Cosegmentation for Plant Phenotyping Network (CoPPNet)
that utilizes a Fully Convolutional Neural Network with a K-Means
Clustering feedback loop for optimal temporal loss. The results from
this study will set the benchmark for a novel advancement in computer
vision segmentation accuracy and plant phenomics to better understand a
plant’s environmental interactions for maximal resilience and yield.