Fathinul Syahir Ahmad Sa'ad
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Fathinul Syahir Ahmad Sa'ad
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Fathinul Syahir, Ahmad Sa'ad
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Ahmad Saad, Fathinul Syahir
Sa’ad, Fathinul Syahir Ahmad
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57205307496
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R-5360-2019

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  • Publication
    Deep CNN-based Planthopper classification using a high-density image dataset
    (MDPI, 2023)
    Mohd Firdaus Ibrahim
    ;
    Siti Khairunniza-Bejo
    ;
    Marsyita Hanafi
    ;
    Mahirah Jahari
    ;
    Mohammad Aufa Mhd Bookeri
    ;
    Fathinul Syahir Ahmad Sa'ad
    Rice serves as the primary food source for nearly half of the global population, with Asia accounting for approximately 90% of rice production worldwide. However, rice farming faces significant losses due to pest attacks. To prevent pest infestations, it is crucial to apply appropriate pesticides specific to the type of pest in the field. Traditionally, pest identification and counting have been performed manually using sticky light traps, but this process is time-consuming. In this study, a machine vision system was developed using a dataset of 7328 high-density images (1229 pixels per centimetre) of planthoppers collected in the field using sticky light traps. The dataset included four planthopper classes: brown planthopper (BPH), green leafhopper (GLH), white-backed planthopper (WBPH), and zigzag leafhopper (ZIGZAG). Five deep CNN models—ResNet-50, ResNet-101, ResNet-152, VGG-16, and VGG-19—were applied and tuned to classify the planthopper species. The experimental results indicated that the ResNet-50 model performed the best overall, achieving average values of 97.28% for accuracy, 92.05% for precision, 94.47% for recall, and 93.07% for the F1-score. In conclusion, this study successfully classified planthopper classes with excellent performance by utilising deep CNN architectures on a high-density image dataset. This capability has the potential to serve as a tool for classifying and counting planthopper samples collected using light traps.
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    Automatic paddy planthopper detection and counting using faster R-CNN
    (MDPI, 2024-09-10)
    Siti Khairunniza-Bejo
    ;
    Mohd Firdaus Ibrahim
    ;
    Marsyita Hanafi
    ;
    Mahirah Jahari
    ;
    Fathinul Syahir Ahmad Sa'ad
    ;
    Mohammad Aufa Mhd Bookeri
    Counting planthoppers manually is laborious and yields inconsistent results, particularly when dealing with species with similar features, such as the brown planthopper (Nilaparvata lugens; BPH), whitebacked planthopper (Sogatella furcifera; WBPH), zigzag leafhopper (Maiestas dorsalis; ZIGZAG), and green leafhopper (Nephotettix malayanus and Nephotettix virescens; GLH). Most of the available automated counting methods are limited to populations of a small density and often do not consider those with a high density, which require more complex solutions due to overlapping objects. Therefore, this research presents a comprehensive assessment of an object detection algorithm specifically developed to precisely detect and quantify planthoppers. It utilises annotated datasets obtained from sticky light traps, comprising 1654 images across four distinct classes of planthoppers and one class of benign insects. The datasets were subjected to data augmentation and utilised to train four convolutional object detection models based on transfer learning. The results indicated that Faster R-CNN VGG 16 outperformed other models, achieving a mean average precision (mAP) score of 97.69% and exhibiting exceptional accuracy in classifying all planthopper categories. The correctness of the model was verified by entomologists, who confirmed a classification and counting accuracy rate of 98.84%. Nevertheless, the model fails to recognise certain samples because of the high density of the population and the significant overlap among them. This research effectively resolved the issue of low- to medium-density samples by achieving very precise and rapid detection and counting.