2020/05/13 by Yingxue Xu, Guihua Wen, Xu, Yingxue +11
Medicine · #Biological and pharmacological studies of plants #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Traditional Chinese Medicine Analysis #Traditional Chinese Medicine Studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2005.06423
openalex publication_date 2020/05/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Chinese herbs play a critical role in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Due to different recognition granularity, they can be recognized accurately only by professionals with much experience. It is expected that they can be recognized automatically using new techniques like machine learning. However, there is no Chinese herbal image dataset available. Simultaneously, there is no machine learning method which can deal with Chinese herbal image recognition well. Therefore, this paper begins with building a new standard Chinese-Herbs dataset. Subsequently, a new Attentional Pyramid Networks (APN) for Chinese herbal recognition is proposed, where both novel competitive attention and spatial collaborative attention are proposed and then applied. APN can adaptively model Chinese herbal images with different feature scales. Finally, a new framework for Chinese herbal recognition is proposed as a new application of APN. Experiments are conducted on our constructed dataset and validate the effectiveness of our methods.