Weed Detection for Selective Spraying: a Review

Weed detection systems are important solutions to one of the existing agricultural problems—unmechanized weed control. Weed detection also helps provide a means of reducing or eliminating herbicide use, mitigating agricultural environmental and health impact, and improving sustainability. Deep learning-based techniques are replacing traditional machine learning techniques to detect weeds in real time with the development of new models and increasing computational power. More hybrid machine learning models are emerging, utilizing benefits from different techniques. More large-scale crop and weed image datasets are available online now, and this provides more data and opportunities for researchers and engineers to join and contribute to this field. This article provides a mini-review of all the different emerging and popular weed detection techniques for selective spraying, and summarizes the trends in this area in the past several years.

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