Novelty Detection Classifiers in Weed Mapping: Silybum marianum Detection on UAV Multispectral Images.

In the present study, the detection and mapping of weed using novelty detection classifiers is reported. A multispectral camera (green-red-NIR) on board a fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was employed for obtaining high-resolution images. Four novelty detection classifiers were used to identify between other vegetation in a field. The classifiers were One Class Support Vector Machine (OC-SVM), One Class Self-Organizing Maps (OC-SOM), Autoencoders and One Class Principal Component Analysis (OC-PCA). As input features to the novelty detection classifiers, the three spectral bands and texture were used. The identification accuracy using OC-SVM reached an overall accuracy of 96%. The results show the feasibility of effective mapping by means of novelty detection classifiers acting on multispectral UAV imagery.