13TSB_AgriFood Developing a vision system to enhance phenotyping in apples (Pomevision)

13TSB_AgriFood 开发视觉系统以增强苹果表型分析 (Pomevision)

• 批准号: BB/L017466/1
• 负责人: Mark Else
• 金额: $ 28.48万
• 依托单位: East Malling Research (United Kingdom)
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=BB%2FL017466%2F1
• 关键词: 13TSB_AgriFood; Developing; vision; system; enhance

The UK is not self-sufficient in apples, even during the cropping season, providing only one third of our own consumptionwith the shortfall made up by imports. A large proportion of this is due to our inability to meet the stringent specification setby supermarkets for Class 1 fruit, which represents 80% of sales. Our consortium represents 20% of the apple crop in theUK; our records show that similar orchards can have outputs that vary by a factor of 2 or 3, with reject fruit going to wasteor low value processing. A significant amount of this variation is down to management practice. Our distribution membersbelieve that, by standardising best-practice orchard management, and with a strategic approach to breeding new cultivars,we could gear up our orchards to take back at least 100,000T of the imported volume.This project is designed to enhance the pace of improvement of quality and output parameters in UK apple orchardsthrough improving management practices and strategic data capture. For this, we need detailed management information,which has been sorely lacking due to the labour-intensive and subjective nature of manual checks to date. The projectdevelops a novel vision-based crop measurement technology based on the convergence between state-of-the-art costeffective image capture technology (now achievable using consumer grade cameras instead of expensive scientificinstruments) and our new image processing algorithms. These tools will be used to identify and record commerciallyrelevant phenotype traits in detail. This data can be used for yield and quality prediction and management in season, forthe optimisation of commercial yields across the UK through the transfer of 'best practice' over a longer timescale, andfinally to tie in with the recently completed sequencing of the apple genome, to identify the best markers to more effectivelybreed new elite cultivars with the best commercial (as well as biological) traits.The project objectives include the identification and optimisation of the most commercially effective traits, the developmentof an automated in-field system to regularly measure the status and development of these traits in response to stress andmanagement activities, decision support outputs and the new knowledge required to start the UK strategic developmentprogramme for new types of commercial cultivar.The consortium is led by business, in the form of Worldwide Fruit, the UK's largest apple producer and supply group, joinedby technology developers who will commercialise the novel platform technology, and supported by East Malling Research,world experts in pomology and apple cultivar development, who will set out the phenotype maps and disseminate theacademic outputs relating to genetic markers for improved cultivars. The group has the skills to research, develop,commercialise and exploit the technology in the UK, and will exploit within Europe and/or licence to other manufacturers asvolumes grow. TSB support is the catalyst needed to drive this innovation across the business-academia gap, while theexposure the scheme brings will help us to penetrate the market more quickly.Potential benefits to the UK apple growers' industry are: raising production quality (percentage within spec.) to better meetsupermarket size and uniformity specifications, saving up to £40M of wasted product; increasing the UK average croppingintensity by up to 50% through 'best practice' identification and transfer, growing capacity by a further £50M; and giving theUK the capability to strategically lead the world in the rapid development of new cultivars, shortening the introduction time by potentially up to 5 years

英国的苹果不能自给自足，即使是在收获季节，也只能提供我们自己消费量的三分之一，缺口由进口弥补。其中很大一部分是由于我们无法满足超市对1类水果（占销售额的80%）设定的严格规格。我们的联盟代表了英国20%的苹果产量;我们的记录显示，类似的果园的产量可能会相差2到3倍，不合格的水果会被浪费或低价值加工。这种差异很大程度上取决于管理实践。我们的经销商相信，通过标准化最佳实践果园管理，并采用战略方法培育新品种，我们可以提高我们的果园，以收回至少100，000 T的进口量。该项目旨在通过改进管理实践和战略数据采集，加快英国苹果园质量和产量参数的改善步伐。为此，我们需要详细的管理信息，由于迄今为止人工检查的劳动密集和主观性质，这方面的信息一直非常缺乏。该项目开发了一种新型的基于视觉的作物测量技术，该技术基于最先进的高性价比图像捕获技术（现在可以使用消费级相机而不是昂贵的科学仪器）和我们新的图像处理算法之间的融合。这些工具将被用于详细鉴定和记录商业相关的表型性状。这些数据可用于产量和质量的预测和季节管理，通过在更长的时间范围内转移“最佳实践”来优化英国各地的商业产量，最后与最近完成的苹果基因组测序相结合，筛选最佳标记，以更有效地培育具有最佳商业价值的新优良品种（以及生物）性状。项目目标包括识别和优化最具商业效益的性状，开发一个自动化的现场系统，定期测量这些性状在应对压力和管理活动中的状态和发展，该联盟由英国最大的苹果生产商和供应集团Worldwide Fruit领导，由技术开发人员加入，他们将把新的平台技术商业化，并得到东马岭研究所的支持，来自世界各地的果树学和苹果品种开发专家将绘制表型图，并传播与改良品种遗传标记有关的学术成果。该集团拥有在英国研究、开发、商业化和利用该技术的技能，并将在欧洲进行开发和/或随着产量的增长向其他制造商发放许可证。TSB的支持是推动这一创新跨越商业和学术界鸿沟所需的催化剂，而该计划带来的曝光将有助于我们更快地渗透市场。对英国苹果种植业的潜在好处是：提高生产质量（在规格范围内的百分比）。更好地满足超市的尺寸和均匀性规格，节省高达4000万英镑的浪费产品;通过“最佳实践”的识别和转移，将英国的平均种植强度提高50%，产能进一步增加5000万英镑;并使英国有能力在新品种的快速开发方面战略性地引领世界，将引进时间缩短5年