Inspiration

The global population is rising (8.5 billion in 2030, and projected to increase further to 9.7 billion in 2050) and the demands on our food production will only continue to grow. To prevent a possible food shortage from happening, we want to make sure that foods grown are in the most optimal conditions. One currently problem we face today are weeds/invasive plants that take up nutrients, water, fertilizer, and space while growing with food crops. Our project attempts to remove these weeds so there is greater efficiency in crop growth.

What it does

Our software will utilize a RCNN to identify weeds types and remove them.

How we built it

We used a kaggle dataset for weed types, and attempted to train a RCNN model to identify these weeds.

Challenges we ran into

input types for the model training

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Reading through the documentation and attempting to figure out how to resolve training and configuration errors

What we learned

Practiced more with tensorflow and model training

What's next for WeedRemover

expanding from our initial kaggle dataset to other weed types.

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