Patch-wise weed coarse segmentation mask from aerial imagery of sesame crop

Syed Imran Moazzam, Umar Shahbaz Khan, Waqar S. Qureshi, Mohsin I. Tiwana, Nasir Rashid, Amir Hamza, Faraz Kunwar, Tahir Nawaz

Abstract: Highlights•Weed classification in sesame crops at the postemergence stage.•A sesame dataset is collected and made publicly available for the research community.•A new patch-based weed coarse segmentation approach is proposed.•The results show that classifying the dataset based on vegetation could improve the classification performance.