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Method and system for identifying field boundary

US11288535B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateSep 7, 2021
Grant dateMar 29, 2022
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Expiry dateSep 7, 2041

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  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY02A40/10
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method and a system for identifying a field boundary are provided. The method includes pre-processing acquired original images to obtain an image data set; training an improved U-Net network to obtain a segmentation model of field regions by taking images in the image data set as inputs, and marked images corresponding to the input images as outputs; wherein the marked images are binary images for distinguishing the field regions from non-field regions, an inverted residual block is set between maximum pooling layers of an encoder of the improved U-Net network, and an inverted residual block is set between deconvolutional layers of a decoder of the improved U-Net network; inputting a current frame image into the segmentation model, outputting a current binary image, and determining a field-side boundary line and a field-end boundary line based on a frame association algorithm and an RANSAC line fitting method.

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