Pollen Grains Classification with a Deep Learning System GPU-Trained

Traditional approaches to automatic classification of pollen grains consisted of classifiers working with feature extractors designed by experts, which modeled pollen grains aspects of special importance for biologists. Recently, a Deep Learning (DL) algorithm called Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) has shown a great improvement in performance in many computer vision tasks such as classification, due to this great performance the computational requirements have increased considerably; therefore, it is advisable to use new platforms such as the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), which offer large computational resources for the development of new systems with CNN. This paper presents the GPU-Trained implementation of a DL system with the CNN algorithm, proposing a CNN model capable of running on a GPU in real-time for the automatic classification of 19 different pollen grains belonging to 14 different families, which are found in high concentrations in Mexico, and which are large interest in areas such as beekeeping, paleoecology, botany, allergology, agriculture among others. These areas seek to improve the collection of palynological data in terms of time and accuracy. In order to evaluate our model, evaluation tests were performed in the NVIDIA Jetson TX2 Developer Kit GPU. Experimental results achieves around 90% in CCR and Sensitivity in the proposed model. Additionally, the proposed model works at a processing speed of 6,826 Frames Per Second (FPS) and has approximately 50% fewer parameters than reported in related works.