Apple is one of the most important economic fruit crops in the world. Despite all the
strategies of integrated pest management (IPM), insecticides are still frequently used in its …

Machine learning (ML) refers to the processes that enable computers to think based on
various learning methods. It can be also called domain which is a subset of Artificial …

Fruit flies has a big biological and economic importance for the farming of different tropical
and subtropical countries in the World. Specifically in Brazil, third largest fruit producer in the …

The high-resolution devices for image capturing and the high professional requirement for
users, are very complex to extract features of the fruit fly image for classification. Therefore, a …

Abstract Fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) are among the most economically important pests
worldwide, causing direct damage to fruit crops through female oviposition and larval …

Citrus flies are important quarantine pests in citrus plantations. Electronic traps (e-traps)
based on computer vision are the most popular types of equipment for monitoring them …

RNA interference (RNAi) technology has been used in the development of approaches for
pest control. The presence of some essential genes, the so-called “core genes,” in the RNAi …

On the basis of the problem that the image background is simple and the traditional shooting
equipment of fruit flies is too high, this study improved the convolutional neural network …

Since bees are the main pollinators of natural and agricultural ecosystems, they play a
fundamental role in the preservation of the environment and food production. However …

The discriminative information of fruit fly images often exists in a very fine region, resulting in
hard extracting the desired features from the entire image level. Hence, it is a tough task to …