# Automated Seed Quality Testing System using GAN & Active Learning

Source: [Automated Seed Quality Testing System using GAN & Active Learning](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6aea1e209131cea2afe1>)

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Authors: Sandeep Nagar, Prateek Pani, Raj Nair, Girish Varma

Published: 2021-10-02T10:28:25.000Z

## Abstract

Quality assessment of agricultural produce is a crucial step in minimizing food stock wastage. However, this is currently done manually and often requires expert supervision, especially in smaller seeds like corn. We propose a novel computer vision-based system for automating this process. We build a novel seed image acquisition setup, which captures both the top and bottom views. Dataset collection for this problem has challenges of data annotation costs/time and class imbalance. We address these challenges by i.) using a Conditional Generative Adversarial Network (CGAN) to generate real-looking images for the classes with lesser images and ii.) annotate a large dataset with minimal expert human intervention by using a Batch Active Learning (BAL) based annotation tool. We benchmark different image classification models on the dataset obtained. We are able to get accuracies of up to 91.6% for testing the physical purity of seed samples.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.00777>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.00777.pdf>)
