The Tulip Breaking Virus ( TBV ) make a great deal of scathe to growers every year . Infected tulip must be quickly detected and then cleared to preclude them from affecting other flowers . Detecting by deal is labor - intensive . That is why the Greenhouse Horticulture and Flower Bulbs Business Unit of Wageningen University & Research teach information processing system to recognize the computer virus .
The flower bulb sector wants to increase sustainability and reduce dependence on crop protection agents . The public - private partnership Bollenrevolution 4.0 is working on this through the development of precision farming proficiency , vision and detector techniques in the field and in the barn and during processing , and data point management ( such as the purpose of data for operational direction ) . Precision farming includes automatic disease detection . For tulips , this mainly concerns the TBV ( Tulip Breaking Virus ) and TVX ( Tulip virus X ) . As soon as the tulips form leaves in the field , they are susceptible to these virus : TBV is being transferred by lice . septic tulip show spots on both the bloom and the leaf . However , those spot are light to bedevil with , for example , icing impairment . Moreover , detecting the computer virus is labor - intensive , while the light bulb sphere is finding it increasingly unmanageable to see good employee .
WUR is therefore look into whether the virus can be decent detected with the assistance of imaginativeness software and rich learning . This is done with the Strong Gold cultivar , the most widely grown tulip in the Netherlands . To this terminal , the software system is feed with elaborated pic of infected leaves . As a answer , the software learns to recognize fishy spots better and faster than masses can . To instruct the computer to detect the computer virus , a tractor is fit with a container in which ten photographic camera with lights are attached . The tractor drives slowly across a tulip playing area , and the tulip are consider while driving . At this time , the tractor is only used for inquiry purposes : what the concluding machine will seem like and how the tulips can be removed later on .
Bulb Revolution 4.0The enquiry took place in the context of Bulb Revolution 4.0 . The implementation of this Public - Private Partnership lie with a pool of seven partners . These are : KAVB , Anthos , Wageningen University & Research ( WUR ) , Cremer Specialemachines B.V. , Machinefabriek Steketee B.V. , Agrisim B.V. , BKD and TechNature B.V. Economic Board Greenport Duin & Bollenstreek and Rabobank Bollenstreek contribute to the funding from their Innovation Funds .
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