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Remote sensing of parsley fields through UAV multispectral imagery allows uniform scanning and better capture of crop information, in comparison to traditional limited field sampling analysis in the laboratory. Moreover, they only represent localized sub-sections of the crop field and are time consuming to process. The limited availability of seed sample maturity data is a drawback for applying deep learning methods, which have shown tremendous potential in estimating agronomic parameters, especially maturity, as they require large labeled datasets. In this paper, we propose a parametric and non-parametric-based weak labeling approach to overcome the lack of maturity labels and render possible maturity estimation by deep network regression to assist growers in harvest decision-making. We present the data acquisition protocol and the performance evaluation of the generative models and neural network architectures. Convolutional and recurrent neural networks were trained on the generated labels and evaluated on maturity ground truth labels to assess the maturity quantification quality. The results showed improvement by the semi-supervised approaches over the generative models, with a root-mean-squared error of 0.0770 for the long-short-term memory network trained on kernel-density-estimation-generated labels. Generative-model-based data labeling can unlock new possibilities for remote sensing fields where data collection is complex, and in our usage, they provide better-performing models for parsley maturity estimation based on UAV multispectral imagery.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14205238","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,21]],"date-time":"2022-10-21T00:34:30Z","timestamp":1666312470000},"page":"5238","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Generative-Model-Based Data Labeling for Deep Network Regression: Application to Seed Maturity Estimation from UAV Multispectral Images"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7366-2991","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Eric","family":"Dericquebourg","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"INSA CVL, University of Orleans, PRISME EA 4229, 18022 Bourges, France"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3185-9996","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Adel","family":"Hafiane","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"INSA CVL, University of Orleans, PRISME EA 4229, 18022 Bourges, France"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9100-7539","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Raphael","family":"Canals","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"INSA CLV, University of Orleans, PRISME EA 4229, 45067 Orleans, France"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"140918","DOI":"10.1016\/j.scitotenv.2020.140918","article-title":"Projected temperature increases may require shifts in the growing season of cool-season crops and the growing locations of warm-season crops","volume":"746","author":"Marklein","year":"2020","journal-title":"Sci. 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