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However, because vines are small and cling to trellises, and have branches laying on the ground, numerous challenges exist in the acquisition of accurate data for kiwifruit vines. In this paper, a kiwifruit canopy distribution prediction model is proposed on the basis of low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images and deep learning techniques. First, the location of the kiwifruit plants and vine distribution are extracted from high-precision images collected by UAV. The canopy gradient distribution maps with different noise reduction and distribution effects are generated by modifying the threshold and sampling size using the resampling normalization method. The results showed that the accuracies of the vine segmentation using PSPnet, support vector machine, and random forest classification were 71.2%, 85.8%, and 75.26%, respectively. However, the segmentation image obtained using depth semantic segmentation had a higher signal-to-noise ratio and was closer to the real situation. The average intersection over union of the deep semantic segmentation was more than or equal to 80% in distribution maps, whereas, in traditional machine learning, the average intersection was between 20% and 60%. This indicates the proposed model can quickly extract the vine distribution and plant position, and is thus able to perform dynamic monitoring of orchards to provide real-time operation guidance.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s21134442","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,29]],"date-time":"2021-06-29T04:31:07Z","timestamp":1624941067000},"page":"4442","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Identifying the Branch of Kiwifruit Based on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Images Using Deep Learning Method"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"Zijie","family":"Niu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University, Xi\u2019an 712100, China"}]},{"given":"Juntao","family":"Deng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University, Xi\u2019an 712100, China"}]},{"given":"Xu","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University, Xi\u2019an 712100, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6972-6828","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jun","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University, Xi\u2019an 712100, China"}]},{"given":"Shijia","family":"Pan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University, Xi\u2019an 712100, China"}]},{"given":"Haotian","family":"Mu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University, Xi\u2019an 712100, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"41","article-title":"Application and development prospect of 3S technology in precision agriculture","volume":"40","author":"Guo","year":"2020","journal-title":"Agric. 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