Crop conditional Convolutional Neural Networks for massive multi-crop plant disease classification over cell phone acquired images taken on real field conditions

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have demonstrated their capabilities on the agronomical field, especially for plant visual symptoms assessment. As these models grow both in the number of training images and in the number of supported crops and diseases, there exist the dichotomy of (1) generating smaller models for specific crop or, (2) to generate a unique multi-crop model in a much more complex task (especially at early disease stages) but with the benefit of the entire multiple crop image dataset variability to enrich image feature description learning. In this work we first introduce a challenging dataset of more than one hundred-thousand images taken by cell phone in real field wild conditions. This dataset contains almost equally distributed disease stages of seventeen diseases and five crops (wheat, barley, corn, rice and rape-seed) where several diseases can be present on the same picture. When applying existing state of the art deep neural network methods to validate the two hypothesised approaches, we obtained a balanced accuracy (BAC=0.92) when generating the smaller crop specific models and a balanced accuracy (BAC=0.93) when generating a single multi-crop model. In this work, we propose three different CNN architectures that incorporate contextual non-image meta-data such as crop information onto an image based Convolutional Neural Network. This combines the advantages of simultaneously learning from the entire multi-crop dataset while reducing the complexity of the disease classification tasks. The crop-conditional plant disease classification network that incorporates the contextual information by concatenation at the embedding vector level obtains a balanced accuracy of 0.98 improving all previous methods and removing 71% of the miss-classifications of the former methods

Detection of Disease on Corn Plants Using Convolutional Neural Network Methods

Deep Learning is still an interesting issue and is still widely studied. In this study Deep Learning was used for the diagnosis of corn plant disease using the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) method, with a total dataset of 3.854 images of diseases in corn plants, which consisted of three types of corn diseases namely Common Rust, Gray Leaf Spot, and Northern Leaf Blight. With an accuracy of 99%, in detecting disease in corn plants

Experimental analysis and evaluation of wide residual networks based agricultural disease identification in smart agriculture system

Specialised pest and disease control in the agricultural crops industry have been a high-priority issue. Due to great cost-effectiveness and efficient automation, computer vision (CV)–based automatic pest or disease identification techniques are widely utilised in the smart agricultural systems. As rapid development of artificial intelligence, in the field of computer vision–based agricultural pest identification, an increasing number of scholars have begun to move their attentions from traditional machine learning models to deep learning techniques. However, so far, deep learning techniques still have been suffering from many problems such as limited data samples, cost-effectiveness of network structure, and high image quality requirements. These issues greatly limit the potential utilisation of deep-learning techniques into smart agricultural systems. This paper aims at investigating utilization of one new deep-learning model WRN (wide residual networks) into CV-based automatic disease identification problem. We first built up a large-scale agricultural disease images dataset containing over 36,000 pieces of diseases, which includes typical types of disease in tomato, potato, grape, corn and apple. Then, we analysed and evaluated wide residual networks algorithm using the Tesla K80 graphics processor (GPU) in the TensorFlow deep-learning framework. A set of comprehensive experimental protocols have been designed in comparing with GoogLeNet Inception V4 regarding several benchmarks. The experimental results indicate that (1) under WRN architecture, Softmax loss function gives a faster convergence and improved accuracy than GoogLeNet inception V4 network. (2) While WRN shows a good effect for identification of agricultural diseases, its effectiveness has a strong need on the number of training samples of dataset like at least 36 k images in our experiment. (3) The overall performance is better than 800 sheets. The disease identification results show that the WRN model can be applied to the identification of agricultural diseases

Technologies, methods, and approaches on detection system of plant pests and diseases

This research aims to identify the technology, methods, approaches applied in developing plant pest and disease detection systems. For this purpose, it mainly reviews systematically related research on identification, monitoring, detection, and control techniques of plant pests and diseases using a computer or mobile technology. Evidence from the literature shows previous both academia and practitioners have used various technologies, methods and approaches for developing detection system of plant pests and diseases. Some technologies have been applied for the detection system, such as web-based, mobile-based, and internet of things (IoT). Furthermore, the dominant approaches are expert system and deep learning. While backward chaining, forward chaining, fuzzy model, genetic algorithm (GA), K-means clustering, Bayesian networks and incremental learning, Naïve Bayes and Certainty Factors, Convolutional Neural Network, and Decision Tree are the most frequently methods applied in the previous researches. The review also indicated that no single technology or technique is best for developing accurate pest/disease detection system. Instead, the combination of technologies, methods, and approaches resulted in different performance and accuracies. A possible explanation for this is because the systems are used for detecting, controlling and monitoring various plants, such as corn, onion, wheat, rice, mango, flower, and others that are different. This research contributes by providing a reference for technologies, methods, and approaches to the detection system for plant pests and diseases. Also, it adds a way of literature review. This research has implications for researchers as a reference for researching in the computer system, especially for the detection of plant pest and disease research. Hence, this research also extends the body of knowledge of the intelligence system, deep learning, and computer science. For practice, the method references can be used for developing technology for detecting plant pest and disease

Deep Learning for Early Detection, Identification, and Spatiotemporal Monitoring of Plant Diseases Using Multispectral Aerial Imagery

Production of food crops is hampered by the proliferation of crop diseases which cause huge harvest losses. Current crop-health monitoring programs involve the deployment of scouts and experts to detect and identify crop diseases through visual observation. These monitoring schemes are expensive and too slow to offer timely remedial recommendations for preventing the spread of these crop-damaging diseases. There is thus a need for the development of cheaper and faster methods for identifying and monitoring crop diseases. Recent advances in deep learning have enabled the development of automatic and accurate image classification systems. These advances coupled with the widespread availability of multispectral aerial imagery provide a cost-effective method for developing crop-diseases classification tools. However, large datasets are required to train deep learning models, which may be costly and difficult to obtain. Fortunately, models trained on one task can be repurposed for different tasks (with limited data) using transfer learning technique. The purpose of this research was to develop and implement an end-to-end deep learning framework for early detection and continuous monitoring of crop diseases using transfer learning and high resolution, multispectral aerial imagery. In the first study, the technique was used to compare the performance of five pre-trained deep learning convolutional neural networks (VGG16, VGG19, ResNet50, Inception V3, and Xception) in classifying crop diseases for apples, grapes, and tomatoes. The results of the study show that the best performing crop-disease classification models were those trained on the VGG16 network, while those trained on the ResNet50 network had the worst performance. The other studies compared the performance of using transfer learning and different three-band color combinations to train single- and multiple-crop classification models. The results of these studies show that models combining red, near infrared, and blue bands performed better than models trained with the traditional visible spectral band combination of red, green, and blue. The worst performing models were those combining near infrared, green, and blue bands. This research recommends that further studies be undertaken to determine the best band combinations for training single- and multi-label classification models for both crops and plants and diseases that affect them

Corn Plant Disease Classification Based on Leaf using Residual Networks-9 Architecture

Classification on corn plants is used to classify leaf of corn plants that are healthy and have diseases consisting of Northern Leaf Blight, Common Rust and Gray Leaf Spot. Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is one of algorithms from the branch of deep learning that utilizes artificial neural networks to produce accurate results in classifying an image. In this study, ResNet-9 architecture implemented to build the best model CNN for classification corn plant diseases. After that we doing comparisons of epochs have been carried out to obtain the best model, including comparisons of epochs of 5, 25, 55, 75 and 100. After the epoch comparison, the highest accuracy value was obtained in the 100 epoch experiment so that in this study 100 epochs were used in model formation. The number of datasets used is 9145 data which is divided into two, there are training data (80%) and testing data (20%). In this study, three hyperparameter tuning experiments were carried out and the results of hyperparameter tuning experiments where num_workers is 4 and batch_size is 32. This classification obtained an accuracy rate of 99% and the model is implemented into a web interface

Artificial intelligence-powered expert system model for identifying fall armyworm infestation in maize (Zea mays L.)

Maize (Zea mays L) is one of the most saleable cereal crops grown worldwide and a dominant staple food in many developing countries. The severe outbreak of fall armyworm in maize causes massive yield loss. Modern technologies, including smartphones, can assist in detecting recognising the fall armyworm infestation in maize. The objective of this study was to develop an automated Artificial Intelligence Powered Expert System (AIPES) for identifying fall armyworm infestation in maize. In addition, it put forward a deep learning-based model that is trained on photographs of healthy and fall armyworm infested leaves, cobs and tassels from a dataset and furnished an application that will be detecting maize fall armyworm infestation using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture and Mobile Net V 2 framework model. The study developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based maize fall armyworm infestation detection system using a DCNN (Deep Convolutional Neural Network) to support maize cultivating farmers. The model executed the objective by accurately identifying the fall armyworm infested maize plant and also classified them vis-c-vis the healthier crop. The deep learning models were trained to detect and recognise fall armyworm infection using more than 11000 images of fall armyworm infested leaves, cobs, and tassels. The created application (AIPES for identifying fall armyworm infestation in maize) using CNN detected and recognised the fall armyworm infestation in maize with a 100 per cent training accuracy rate and 87 per cent validation accuracy. So, the detection of maize fall armyworm and the treatment of fall armyworm-infested maize could lead to a higher maize crop yield.