1. Detection of Banana Bunches and Peduncles in the Prata Catarina Cultivar Using Faster R-CNN With Transfer Learning

Banana is one of the most produced and consumed fruits worldwide, being strategic for precision agriculture, especially in applications aimed at intelligent management and automated harvesting. Its economic and social relevance in tropical countries reinforces the need for technological solutions that increase productive efficiency and reduce losses in the field. In this context, the automatic detection of bunches and stalks in a natural environment represents a relevant challenge due to occlusion,... Y. Costa G. Da Silva, E. Freitas, P.S. Costa, D.V. Beserra, D.G. Gomes