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We propose an ensemble framework based on the bagging strategy and the UNet network, using RGB and HSV color spaces. We evaluated the framework on our self-built dataset (Maize) and a public dataset (Sugar Beets). Then, we compared it with UNet-based methods (single RGB and single HSV), DeepLab V3+, and SegNet. Experimental results show that our ensemble framework can synthesize the advantages of each color space and obtain the best IoUs (0.8276 and 0.6972) on the datasets (Maize and Sugar Beets), respectively. 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