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Overview

AgML is a comprehensive library for agricultural machine learning. Currently, AgML provides access to a wealth of public agricultural datasets for common agricultural deep learning tasks. In the future, AgML will provide ag-specific ML functionality related to data, training, and evaluation. Here's a conceptual diagram of the overall framework.

AgML supports both the TensorFlow and PyTorch machine learning frameworks.

Installation

To install the latest release of AgML, run the following command:

pip install agml

NOTE: Some features of AgML, such as synthetic data generation, require GUI applications. When running AgML through Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), it may be necessary to configure your WSL environment to utilize these features. Please follow the Microsoft documentation to install all necessary prerequisites and update WSL. The latest version of WSL includes built-in support for running Linux GUI applications.

Quick Start

AgML is designed for easy usage of agricultural data in a variety of formats. You can start off by using the AgMLDataLoader to download and load a dataset into a container:

import agml

loader = agml.data.AgMLDataLoader('apple_flower_segmentation')

You can then use the in-built processing methods to get the loader ready for your training and evaluation pipelines. This includes, but is not limited to, batching data, shuffling data, splitting data into training, validation, and test sets, and applying transforms.

import albumentations as A

# Batch the dataset into collections of 8 pieces of data:
loader.batch(8)

# Shuffle the data:
loader.shuffle()

# Apply transforms to the input images and output annotation masks:
loader.mask_to_channel_basis()
loader.transform(
    transform = A.RandomContrast(),
    dual_transform = A.Compose([A.RandomRotate90()])
)

# Split the data into train/val/test sets.
loader.split(train = 0.8, val = 0.1, test = 0.1)

The split datasets can be accessed using loader.train_data, loader.val_data, and loader.test_data. Any further processing applied to the main loader will be applied to the split datasets, until the split attributes are accessed, at which point you need to apply processing independently to each of the loaders. You can also turn toggle processing on and off using the loader.eval(), loader.reset_preprocessing(), and loader.disable_preprocessing() methods.

You can visualize data using the agml.viz module, which supports multiple different types of visualization for different data types:

# Disable processing and batching for the test data:
test_ds = loader.test_data
test_ds.batch(None)
test_ds.reset_prepreprocessing()

# Visualize the image and mask side-by-side:
agml.viz.visualize_image_and_mask(test_ds[0])

# Visualize the mask overlaid onto the image:
agml.viz.visualize_overlaid_masks(test_ds[0])

AgML supports both the TensorFlow and PyTorch libraries as backends, and provides functionality to export your loaders to native TensorFlow and PyTorch formats when you want to use them in a training pipeline. This includes both exporting the AgMLDataLoader to a tf.data.Dataset or torch.utils.data.DataLoader, but also internally converting data within the AgMLDataLoader itself, enabling access to its core functionality.

# Export the loader as a `tf.data.Dataset`:
train_ds = loader.train_data.export_tensorflow()

# Convert to PyTorch tensors without exporting.
train_ds = loader.train_data
train_ds.as_torch_dataset()

You're now ready to use AgML for training your own models! Luckily, AgML comes with a training module that enables quick-start training of standard deep learning models on agricultural datasets. Training a grape detection model is as simple as the following code:

import agml
import agml.models

import albumentations as A

loader = agml.data.AgMLDataLoader('grape_detection_californiaday')
loader.split(train = 0.8, val = 0.1, test = 0.1)
processor = agml.models.preprocessing.EfficientDetPreprocessor(
    image_size = 512, augmentation = [A.HorizontalFlip(p=0.5)]
)
loader.transform(processor)

model = agml.models.DetectionModel(num_classes=loader.num_classes)

model.run_training(loader)

Public Dataset Listing

Dataset	Task	Number of Images
bean_disease_uganda	Image Classification	1295
carrot_weeds_germany	Semantic Segmentation	60
plant_seedlings_aarhus	Image Classification	5539
soybean_weed_uav_brazil	Image Classification	15336
sugarcane_damage_usa	Image Classification	153
crop_weeds_greece	Image Classification	508
sugarbeet_weed_segmentation	Semantic Segmentation	1931
rangeland_weeds_australia	Image Classification	17509
fruit_detection_worldwide	Object Detection	565
leaf_counting_denmark	Image Classification	9372
apple_detection_usa	Object Detection	2290
mango_detection_australia	Object Detection	1730
apple_flower_segmentation	Semantic Segmentation	148
apple_segmentation_minnesota	Semantic Segmentation	670
rice_seedling_segmentation	Semantic Segmentation	224
plant_village_classification	Image Classification	55448
autonomous_greenhouse_regression	Image Regression	389
grape_detection_syntheticday	Object Detection	448
grape_detection_californiaday	Object Detection	126
grape_detection_californianight	Object Detection	150
guava_disease_pakistan	Image Classification	306
apple_detection_spain	Object Detection	967
apple_detection_drone_brazil	Object Detection	689
plant_doc_classification	Image Classification	2598
plant_doc_detection	Object Detection	2346
wheat_head_counting	Object Detection	6512
peachpear_flower_segmentation	Semantic Segmentation	42
red_grapes_and_leaves_segmentation	Semantic Segmentation	258
white_grapes_and_leaves_segmentation	Semantic Segmentation	273
ghai_romaine_detection	Object Detection	500
ghai_green_cabbage_detection	Object Detection	500
ghai_iceberg_lettuce_detection	Object Detection	500
riseholme_strawberry_classification_2021	Image Classification	3520
ghai_broccoli_detection	Object Detection	500
bean_synthetic_earlygrowth_aerial	Semantic Segmentation	2500
ghai_strawberry_fruit_detection	Object Detection	500
vegann_multicrop_presence_segmentation	Semantic Segmentation	3775
corn_maize_leaf_disease	Image Classification	4188
tomato_leaf_disease	Image Classification	11000
vine_virus_photo_dataset	Image Classification	3866

Usage Information

Using Public Agricultural Data

AgML aims to provide easy access to a range of existing public agricultural datasets The core of AgML's public data pipeline is AgMLDataLoader. You can use the AgMLDataLoader or agml.data.download_public_dataset() to download the dataset locally from which point it will be automatically loaded from the disk on future runs. From this point, the data within the loader can be split into train/val/test sets, batched, have augmentations and transforms applied, and be converted into a training-ready dataset (including batching, tensor conversion, and image formatting).

To see the various ways in which you can use AgML datasets in your training pipelines, check out the example notebook.

Annotation Formats

A core aim of AgML is to provide datasets in a standardized format, enabling the synthesizing of multiple datasets into a single training pipeline. To this end, we provide annotations in the following formats:

• Image Classification: Image-To-Label-Number
• Object Detection: COCO JSON
• Semantic Segmentation: Dense Pixel-Wise

Contributions

We welcome contributions! If you would like to contribute a new feature, fix an issue that you've noticed, or even just mention a bug or feature that you would like to see implemented, please don't hesitate to use the Issues tab to bring it to our attention. See the contributing guidelines for more information.

Funding

This project is partly funded by the National AI Institute for Food Systems