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We therefore created a new dataset using large-sized orthophotographs collected from 32 cities, 167 regions, and 6121 pine wilt disease hotspots in South Korea. In our system, pine wilt disease was detected in two stages: n the first stage, the disease and hard negative samples were collected using a convolutional neural network. Because the diseased areas varied in size and color, and as the disease manifests differently from the early stage to the late stage, hard negative samples were further categorized into six different classes to simplify the complexity of the dataset. Then, in the second stage, we used an object detection model to localize the disease and \u201cdisease-like\u201d hard negative samples. We used several image augmentation methods to boost system performance and avoid overfitting. The test process was divided into two phases: a patch-based test and a real-world test. During the patch-based test, we used the test-time augmentation method to obtain the average prediction of our system across multiple augmented samples of data, and the prediction results showed a mean average precision of 89.44% in five-fold cross validation, thus representing an increase of around 5% over the alternative system. In the real-world test, we collected 10 orthophotographs in various resolutions and areas, and our system successfully detected 711 out of 730 potential disease spots.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14010150","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,30]],"date-time":"2021-12-30T23:29:07Z","timestamp":1640906947000},"page":"150","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":34,"title":["A Deep Learning-Based Generalized System for Detecting Pine Wilt Disease Using RGB-Based UAV Images"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2595-7357","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jie","family":"You","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Engineering, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju-si 54896, Korea"}]},{"given":"Ruirui","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Engineering, Cangzhou Normal University, Cangzhou 061001, China"}]},{"given":"Joonwhoan","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Engineering, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju-si 54896, Korea"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"1","article-title":"Modelling the dynamics of Pine Wilt Disease with asymptomatic carriers and optimal control","volume":"10","author":"Khan","year":"2020","journal-title":"Sci. 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