Gabriel António Carneiro

Abstract
Precision agriculture (PA) has advanced agricultural practices, offering new opportunities for crop management and yield optimization. The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in PA enables high-resolution data acquisition, which has been adopted across different agricultural sectors. However, its application for decision support in chestnut plantations remains under-represented. This study presents the initial development of a methodology for segmenting chestnut burrs from UAV-based imagery to estimate its productivity in point cloud data. Deep learning (DL) architectures, including U-Net, LinkNet, and PSPNet, were employed for chestnut burr segmentation in UAV images captured at a 30 m flight height, with YOLOv8m trained for comparison. Two datasets were used for training and to evaluate the models: one newly introduced in this study and an existing dataset. U-Net demonstrated the best performance, achieving an F1-score of 0.56 and a counting accuracy of 0.71 on the proposed dataset, using a combination of both datasets during training. The primary challenge encountered was that burrs often tend to grow in clusters, leading to unified regions in segmentation, making object detection potentially more suitable for counting. Nevertheless, the results show that DL architectures can generate masks for point cloud segmentation, supporting precise chestnut tree production estimation in future studies.

Abstract
Public lighting is crucial for maintaining the safety and well-being of communities. Current inspection methods involve examining the luminaires during the day, but this approach has drawbacks, including energy consumption, delay in detecting issues, and high costs and time investment. Utilising deep learning based automatic detection is an advanced method that can be used for identifying and locating issues in this field. This study aims to use deep learning to automatically detect burnt-out street lights, using Seville (Spain) as a case study. The study uses high-resolution night time imagery from the JL1-3B satellite to create a dataset called NLight, which is then divided into three subsets: NL1, NL2, and NT. The NL1 and NL2 datasets are used to train and evaluate YOLOv5 and YOLOv7 segmentation models for instance segmentation of streets. And then, distance outliers were detected to find the lights off. Finally, the NT dataset is used to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed methodology. The study finds that YOLOv5 achieved a mask mAP of 57.7%, and the proposed methodology had a precision of 30.8% and a recall of 28.3%. The main goal of this work is accomplished, but there is still space for future work to improve the methodology.

Abstract
Public lighting plays a very important role for society's safety and quality of life. The identification of faults in public lighting is essential for the maintenance and prevention of safety. Traditionally, this task depends on human action, through checking during the day, representing expenditure and waste of energy. Automatic detection with deep learning is an innovative solution that can be explored for locating and identifying of this kind of problem. In this study, we present a first approach, composed of several steps, intending to obtain the segmentation of public lighting, using Seville (Spain) as case study. A dataset called NLight was created from a nighttime image taken by the JL1-3B satellite, and four U-Net and FPN architectures were trained with different backbones to segment part of the NLight. The U-Net with InceptionResNetv2 proved to be the model with the best performance, obtained 761 of 815, correct locations (93.4%). This model was used to predict the segmentation of the remaining dataset. This study provides the location of lamps so that we can identify patterns and possible lighting failures in the future.

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The grape moth is a common pest that affects grapevines by consuming both fruit and foliage, rendering grapes deformed and unsellable. Integrated pest management for the grape moth heavily relies on pheromone traps, which serve a crucial function by identifying and tracking adult moth populations. This information is then used to determine the most appropriate time and method for implementing other control techniques. This study aims to find the best method for detecting small insects. We evaluate the following recent YOLO models: v5, v6, v7, and v8 for detecting and counting grape moths in insect traps. The best performance was achieved by YOLOv8, with an average precision of 92.4% and a counting error of 8.1%.

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In this study, we evaluated the use of small pre-trained 3D Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) on land use and land cover (LULC) slide-window-based classification. We pre-trained the small models in a dataset with origin in the Eurosat dataset and evaluated the benefits of the transfer-learning plus fine-tuning for four different regions using Sentinel-2 L1C imagery (bands of 10 and 20m of spatial resolution), comparing the results to pre-trained models and trained from scratch. The models achieved an F1 Score of between 0.69-0.80 without significative change when pre-training the model. However, for small datasets, pre-training the model improved the classification by up to 3%.