SilvaScenes: 自然林の林冠下画像からの樹木検出と樹種分類
SilvaScenes: Tree Detection and Species Classification from Under-Canopy Images in Natural Forests
カナダ・ケベックの自然林で撮影した林冠下画像を用い、28種1421本の樹木を対象に幹のセグメンテーションと樹種分類を行うベンチマークデータセットを構築し、深層学習手法の性能を評価した。
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著者: David-Alexandre Duclos, William Guimont-Martin, Gabriel Jeanson, Arthur Larochelle-Tremblay, Martine Lapointe, Théo Defosse, Frédéric Moore, Philippe Nolet, François Pomerleau, Philippe Giguère
分類: cs.CV, cs.AI, cs.LG, cs.RO
原文アブストラクト
Interest in forestry automation is growing alongside rapid advances in deep learning. In particular, tree detection and taxonomic classification are seen as core tasks required for automating field surveys and forestry equipment. These operations must often be performed in under-canopy settings, which pose challenging conditions for perception systems, including heavy occlusion, variable lighting, and dense vegetation. Despite this necessity, current work has yet to properly establish the feasibility of simultaneously executing tree detection and taxonomic classification in natural forests, as available datasets primarily focus on urban settings or on a limited number of species. To address this gap, we present SilvaScenes, a benchmark dataset for instance segmentation of tree species from under-canopy images in natural forests. Collected across five bioclimatic domains in Quebec, Canada, our dataset features 1421 trees from 28 species, with segmentation masks for pixel-precise tree trunk detection and fine-grained species annotations from forestry experts. We demonstrate the relevance and difficult nature of SilvaScenes by evaluating modern deep learning approaches, showing that while trunk segmentation is feasible, with a top mean average precision (mAP) of 69.9% and mean average recall (mAR) of 76.4%, species-aware segmentation remains a significant challenge with an mAP and an mAR of only 39.2% and 68.6%, respectively. Alongside additional experiments, we highlight key challenges, namely that species imbalance and tree occlusion figure among the most pressing issues for precise segmentation and identification. Meanwhile, higher image resolutions contribute to significant performance gains and will likely prove fundamental to these tasks moving forward. Our dataset, source code, and models will be made available at https://github.com/norlab-ulaval/SilvaScenes.
