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Performance analysis of deep learning CNN models for disease detection in plants using image segmentation

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: Food security for the 7 billion people on earth requires minimizing crop damage by timely detection of diseases. Most deep learning models for automated detection of diseases in plants suffer from the fatal flaw that once tested on independent data, their performance drops significantly. This work investigates a potential solution to this problem by using segmented image data to train the convolutional neural network (CNN) models. As compared to the F-CNN model trained using full images, S-CNN model trained using segmented images more than doubles in performance to 98.6% accuracy when tested on independent data previously unseen by the models even with 10 disease classes. Not only this, by using tomato plant and target spot disease type as an example, we show that the confidence of self-classification for S-CNN model improves significantly over F-CNN model. This research work brings applicability of automated methods closer to non-experts for timely detection of diseases.

Source: Information Processing in Agriculture

DOI: 10.1016/j.inpa.2019.11.001

Authors: Parul Sharma, Yash Paul Singh Berwal, Wiqas Ghai

Institutions: RIMT University, Government of Haryana

Language: English

Topic: Smart Agriculture and AI

Subfield: Plant Science

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Domain: Life Sciences

SDG: Zero hunger

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $2,000