Crop yield prediction using machine learning: A systematic literature review

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity, and we, as machine learning experts, may wonder how we can help. Here we describe how machine learning can be a powerful tool in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and helping society adapt to a changing climate. From smart grids to disaster management, we identify high impact problems where existing gaps can be filled by machine learning, in collaboration with other fields. Our recommendations encompass exciting research questions as well as promising business opportunities. We call on the machine learning community to join the global effort against climate change.

Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning

Agriculture automation is the main concern and emerging subject for every country. The world population is increasing at a very fast rate and with increase in population the need for food increases briskly. Traditional methods used by farmers aren't sufficient enough to serve the increasing demand and so they have to hamper the soil by using harmful pesticides in an intensified manner. This affects the agricultural practice a lot and in the end the land remains barren with no fertility. This paper talks about different automation practices like IOT, Wireless Communications, Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence, Deep learning. There are some areas which are causing the problems to agriculture field like crop diseases, lack of storage management, pesticide control, weed management, lack of irrigation and water management and all this problems can be solved by above mentioned different techniques. Today, there is an urgent need to decipher the issues like use of harmful pesticides, controlled irrigation, control on pollution and effects of environment in agricultural practice. Automation of farming practices has proved to increase the gain from the soil and also has strengthened the soil fertility. This paper surveys the work of many researchers to get a brief overview about the current implementation of automation in agriculture. The paper also discusses a proposed system which can be implemented in botanical farm for flower and leaf identification and watering using IOT.

A comprehensive review on automation in agriculture using artificial intelligence

Emerging technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT) can provide significant potential in Smart Farming and Precision Agriculture applications, enabling the acquisition of real-time environmental data. IoT devices such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can be exploited in a variety of applications related to crops management, by capturing high spatial and temporal resolution images. These technologies are expected to revolutionize agriculture, enabling decision-making in days instead of weeks, promising significant reduction in cost and increase in the yield. Such decisions enable the effective application of farm inputs, supporting the four pillars of precision agriculture, i.e., apply the right practice, at the right place, at the right time and with the right quantity. However, the actual proliferation and exploitation of UAVs in Smart Farming has not been as robust as expected mainly due to the challenges confronted when selecting and deploying the relevant technologies, including the data acquisition and image processing methods. The main problem is that still there is no standardized workflow for the use of UAVs in such applications, as it is a relatively new area. In this article, we review the most recent applications of UAVs for Precision Agriculture. We discuss the most common applications, the types of UAVs exploited and then we focus on the data acquisition methods and technologies, appointing the benefits and drawbacks of each one. We also point out the most popular processing methods of aerial imagery and discuss the outcomes of each method and the potential applications of each one in the farming operations.

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A Review on UAV-Based Applications for Precision Agriculture

A compilation of UAV applications for precision agriculture

Machine learning has emerged with big data technologies and high-performance computing to create new opportunities for data intensive science in the multi-disciplinary agri-technologies domain. In this paper, we present a comprehensive review of research dedicated to applications of machine learning in agricultural production systems. The works analyzed were categorized in (a) crop management, including applications on yield prediction, disease detection, weed detection crop quality, and species recognition; (b) livestock management, including applications on animal welfare and livestock production; (c) water management; and (d) soil management. The filtering and classification of the presented articles demonstrate how agriculture will benefit from machine learning technologies. By applying machine learning to sensor data, farm management systems are evolving into real time artificial intelligence enabled programs that provide rich recommendations and insights for farmer decision support and action.

Machine Learning in Agriculture: A Review.

Every year, the rate at which technology is applied on areas of our everyday life is increasing at a steady pace. This rapid development drives the technology companies to design and fabricate their integrated circuits (ICs) in non-trustworthy outsourcing foundries in order to reduce the cost. Thus, a synchronous form of virus, known as Hardware Trojans (HTs), was developed. HTs leak encrypted information, degrade device performance or lead to total destruction. To reduce the risks associated with these viruses, various approaches have been developed aiming to prevent and detect them, based on conventional or machine learning methods. Ideally, any undesired modification made to an IC should be detectable by pre-silicon verification/simulation and post-silicon testing. The infected circuit can be inserted in different stages of the manufacturing process, rendering the detection of HTs a complicated procedure. In this paper, we present a comprehensive review of research dedicated to applications based on Machine Learning for the detection of HTs in ICs. The literature is categorized in (a) reverse-engineering development for the imaging phase, (b) real-time detection, (c) golden model-free approaches, (d) detection based on gate-level netlists features and (e) classification approaches.

Machine Learning for Hardware Trojan Detection: A Review

Conventional and machine learning approaches as countermeasures against hardware trojan attacks

Genomic regions that encode small RNA genes exhibit characteristic patterns in their sequence, secondary structure, and evolutionary conservation. Convolutional Neural Networks are a family of algorithms that can classify data based on learned patterns. Here we present MuStARD an application of Convolutional Neural Networks that can learn patterns associated with user-defined sets of genomic regions, and scan large genomic areas for novel regions exhibiting similar characteristics. We demonstrate that MuStARD is a generic method that can be trained on different classes of human small RNA genomic loci, without need for domain specific knowledge, due to the automated feature and background selection processes built into the model. We also demonstrate the ability of MuStARD for inter-species identification of functional elements by predicting mouse small RNAs (pre-miRNAs and snoRNAs) using models trained on the human genome. MuStARD can be used to filter small RNA-Seq datasets for identification of novel small RNA loci, intra- and inter- species, as demonstrated in three use cases of human, mouse, and fly pre-miRNA prediction. MuStARD is easy to deploy and extend to a variety of genomic classification questions. Code and trained models are freely available at gitlab.com/RBP_Bioinformatics/mustard.

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Multi-branch Convolutional Neural Network for Identification of Small Non-coding RNA genomic loci

The 21st century has been characterized by incredible technological advancements. A key factor of this revolution is the ever-growing circuits complexity that are the core components of all electronic devices. This revolution has resulted in the development of today's computers but has also led to the creation of a new generation of device viruses, called hardware trojans (HTs). HTs can infect circuits leading to their degradation, complete destruction, or leakage of encrypted information. HTs can be inserted into any phase of the circuit production chain, they can function silently and remain undetected until triggered by a predefined mechanism to deliver their payload. In this paper, we propose a HT classification method, named hArdware Trojan Learning AnalysiS (ATLAS), that identifies HT-infected circuits using a Gradient Boosting (GB) model on data from the gate-level netlist (GLN) phase. Our method was trained on 11 GLN features extracted from 18 trojan-free (TF) and 885 trojaninfected (TI) circuits deposited in Trust-HUB using industrialgrade design tool. The performance evaluation results demonstrate that ATLAS outperforms existing algorithms in terms of Precision, Sensitivity, and F1 measures, enabling highly accurate classification between TF and TI circuits.

Konstantinos G Liakos

Papers

Machine Learning in Agriculture: A Review.

Machine Learning for Hardware Trojan Detection: A Review

Conventional and machine learning approaches as countermeasures against hardware trojan attacks

Multi-branch Convolutional Neural Network for Identification of Small Non-coding RNA genomic loci

Hardware Trojan Classification at Gate-level Netlists based on Area and Power Machine Learning Analysis