• Laser & Optoelectronics Progress
  • Vol. 58, Issue 22, 2210013 (2021)
Jianmin Zhao, Xuedong Li, and Baoshan Li*
Author Affiliations
  • School of Information Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Science & Technology, Baotou, Inner Mongolia 014010, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/LOP202158.2210013 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Jianmin Zhao, Xuedong Li, Baoshan Li. Algorithm of Sheep Dense Counting Based on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Images[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2021, 58(22): 2210013 Copy Citation Text show less
    Flow chart of Bayesian Loss model
    Fig. 1. Flow chart of Bayesian Loss model
    Structural diagram of Bayesian Loss model
    Fig. 2. Structural diagram of Bayesian Loss model
    Schematic diagram of Bayesian loss function
    Fig. 3. Schematic diagram of Bayesian loss function
    Geometric diagram of virtual background point
    Fig. 4. Geometric diagram of virtual background point
    Generation of sheep density map. (a) Original drawing ; (b) sheep density map; (c) geometric adaptive Gaussian kernel
    Fig. 5. Generation of sheep density map. (a) Original drawing ; (b) sheep density map; (c) geometric adaptive Gaussian kernel
    Examples of dataset images. (a) Different illumination; (b) different backgrounds; (c) different number of sheep; (d) different distributions of sheep
    Fig. 6. Examples of dataset images. (a) Different illumination; (b) different backgrounds; (c) different number of sheep; (d) different distributions of sheep
    Counting result
    Fig. 7. Counting result
    Effect of Gaussian kernel parameter on model. (a) Original image; (b) σ=8; (c) σ=16
    Fig. 8. Effect of Gaussian kernel parameter on model. (a) Original image; (b) σ=8; (c) σ=16
    Training loss curves of different models. (a) MCNN; (b) CSRNet; (c) SFANet; (d) Bayesian Loss
    Fig. 9. Training loss curves of different models. (a) MCNN; (b) CSRNet; (c) SFANet; (d) Bayesian Loss
    Visualization results of different models
    Fig. 10. Visualization results of different models
    DatasetNumber of imagesResolutionTotalMinAveMax
    USC3510Different70725745201487
    Table 1. Related information of USC sheep dataset
    MethodBackboneOptimizerEpochBatch_sizeLr_policyTrain time /hMAEMSEMRE /%
    MCNNFSAdam20001StepLR18043.3451.0521.58
    CSRNetVGG16SGD4001StepLR5221.5829.8010.90
    SFANetVGG16Adam5008StepLR1525.938.143.17
    Bayesian LossVGG19Adam100016StepLR383.565.461.86
    Table 2. Comprehensive comparison of different models on sheep dataset
    Jianmin Zhao, Xuedong Li, Baoshan Li. Algorithm of Sheep Dense Counting Based on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Images[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2021, 58(22): 2210013
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