Scientists have trained an AI algorithm to count the number of flowers on fruit trees using only smartphone images. The system could predict the size of a harvest months in advance — saving ...

The researchers compared four forms of the neural network’s output to some of the more common yield prediction tools, including linear regression and a random forest algorithm. They found that the ...

For decision tree classification, the variable to predict is most often ordinal-encoded (0, 1, 2 and so on) The numeric predictors do not need to be normalized to all the same range -- typically 0.0 ...