Hyperspectral prediction of sugarbeet seed germination based on gauss kernel SVM.

How to quickly and accurately select sugarbeet seeds with reliable germination is very important to sugarbeet planting. In this study, the hyperspectral images of 3072 sugarbeet seeds of the same variety were collected, and were successively processed by binarization, morphology, contour extraction and so on. The average spectrum of the single seed image was obtained by image segmentation. Comprehensive analysis of the evaluation parameters of the five spectral preprocessing methods revealed that the second derivative (2D) processing was optimal. Successive projections algorithm (SPA) was used to extract 16 characteristic wavelengths. Support vector machine radial basis function (SVM-RBF), k-nearest neighbor (KNN) and random forest (RF) models were established at the full wavelength and characteristic wavelength respectively to predict the germination of sugarbeet seeds. By analyzing the prediction accuracy of the three models, it was found that the SVM-RBF model provided the highest prediction accuracy in the test set (the prediction accuracy of the full wavelength was 95.5%, and the prediction accuracy of the characteristic wavelength was 92.32%). The research results showed that the hyperspectral image processing technology could accurately predict the germination rate of sugarbeet seeds, and realize the rapid and non-destructive prediction of the germination status of sugarbeet seeds.