PLANT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PLANT RECOGNITION

The invention provides a plant treatment system comprising:- a vehicle,- a camera mounted on said vehicle to acquire an pixel matrix image of a portion of an area during movement,- a plant treatment device mounted on the vehicle and comprising a controller module receiving a plant treatment signal a selectively triggerring a plant treatment based on said weed species detection signal,the plant treatment system further comprising a plant identification unit comprising a processing module configured to:* convert a received image into vectors respectively associated with a plurality of image patches, each vector being representative of pixel values in the patch and the position of the patch in the image,* apply the vectors to a learnable encoder to generate encoded patch vectors,* apply the outputs of the encoder to the inputs of a learnable decoder comprising a plurality of layers to generate decoded patch vectors, said decoder further receiving class-related inputs to generate decoded plant class-related vectors,wherein at least one among the learnable encoder and the learnable decoder comprises a transformer-type multi-layer mechanism containing at least one self-attention layer,- combining said decoded plant class-related vectors and decoded patch vectors to generate class masks each defining a probability that a given patch corresponds to a given class,- deriving from said class masks a probability matrix from which the plant detection signal is generated.