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Determining optimal buckwheat harvest time is difficult. This study uses near-infrared (NIR) spectral data and synthetic data generation with a conditional WGAN-GP to improve machine learning models for classifying buckwheat maturity stages, achieving 97% accuracy.

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Area of Science:

  • Agricultural Science
  • Spectroscopy
  • Machine Learning

Background:

  • Optimizing buckwheat harvest timing is crucial due to its short growth cycle, as premature or delayed harvesting impacts crop quality.
  • Traditional methods for assessing buckwheat maturity are labor-intensive and do not account for field-level variations in crop quality.
  • Near-infrared (NIR) spectral data offers a potential non-destructive method for classifying buckwheat maturity stages.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the utility of NIR spectral data for classifying buckwheat maturity stages.
  • To investigate the application of conditional WGAN-GP for generating synthetic spectral datasets to augment real data.
  • To evaluate the impact of synthetic data augmentation on the performance of various machine learning classification models.

Main Methods:

  • Four buckwheat developmental stages (Unripe Maturity, Half Maturity, Full Maturity with Shell, Full Maturity Unhulled Sample) were defined and sampled.
  • Near-infrared (NIR) spectral data was collected for each maturity stage.
  • A conditional WGAN-GP was employed to generate synthetic spectral data.
  • Machine learning models including SVM, RF, KNN, and PLS-LDA were trained and evaluated using original and augmented datasets.

Main Results:

  • PLS-LDA achieved the highest baseline classification accuracy (95%) using the original dataset.
  • Synthetic data generated by conditional WGAN-GP after 10,000 epochs closely resembled real spectral data.
  • Data augmentation with synthetic data improved classification performance for Random Forest (RF) and k-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) models.
  • The Random Forest (RF) model, trained on augmented data, achieved the best classification performance with 97% accuracy and a kappa coefficient of 0.94.

Conclusions:

  • Conditional WGAN-GP is effective for generating high-fidelity synthetic spectral data for buckwheat maturity classification.
  • Synthetic data augmentation can significantly enhance the performance of machine learning models, particularly RF and KNN.
  • This approach offers a promising strategy for improving the accuracy and efficiency of determining optimal harvest periods for buckwheat.