We are conducting research in several funded projects. You can find more information about EWIS2 below. If you are interested in more details and discussions about our projects, do not hesitate to contact us.

For more information please contact Dominik Grimm.

Project Description

Sorghum and Maize are important energy crops in Bavaria, but their yield is often diminished by the growth of unwanted weeds. Precision Farming offers an unprecedented opportunity to automate and optimize processes in agriculture to manage weeds on agricultural fields more precisely based on their needs and lower the amount of pesticides. This could also minimize the risk of erosion of fields that are located on hills.

In this project we aim to generate high-precision weed density maps with the help of drone images and artificial intelligence. Moreover, based on this weed mapping, a profitability assessment is carried out for various options of site-specific weed management measures. Finally, these weed density maps will be integrated in different agricultural robots to perform mechanical weed management.

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Project Information

Project title

Development and evaluation of weed application maps for the use of robots in mechanical weed control applications

Involved people in our team

Funding

Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft, Forsten und Tourismus

Project partner

Jan Jänicke, Maria Vilsmeier, Michael Grieb, Technologie- und Förderzentrum TFZ; 

Vladyslav Pitsyk, Johanna Pfrombeck, Stefan Kopfinger, Markus Gandorfer, Bayerische Landesanstalt für Landwirtschaft (LfL), ILT 6, Arbeitsbereich Digitalisierung

Funding ID

G2/N/22/11

Publications

Manually annotated and curated Dataset of diverse Weed Species in Maize and Sorghum for Computer Vision
N Genze, WK Vahl, J Groth, M Wirth, M Grieb, DG Grimm
Scientific Data, 2024 
(https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-02945-6) [Data]

Improved weed segmentation in UAV imagery of sorghum fields with a combined deblurring segmentation model.
N Genze, M Wirth, C Schreiner, R Ajekwe, M Grieb, DG Grimm
Plant Methods, Vol. 19, 87, 2023
(https://doi.org/10.1186/s13007-023-01060-8) [Code] [Data]

Deep Learning-based Early Weed Segmentation using Motion Blurred UAV Images of Sorghum Fields
N Genze, R Ajekwe, Z Güreli, F Haselbeck, M Grieb, DG Grimm
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 2022 
(https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2022.107388) [Code, Data]