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

Disease Identification in Crop Plants based on Convolutional Neural Networks

"The identification, classification and treatment of crop plant diseases are essential for agricultural production. Some of the most common diseases include root rot, powdery mildew, mosaic, leaf spot and fruit rot. Machine learning (ML) technology and convolutional neural networks (CNN) have proven to be very useful in this field. This work aims to identify and classify diseases in crop plants, from the data set obtained from Plant Village, with images of diseased plant leaves and their corresponding Tags, using CNN with transfer learning. For processing, the dataset composing of more than 87 thousand images, divided into 38 classes and 26 disease types, was used. Three CNN models (DenseNet-201, ResNet-50 and Inception-v3) were used to identify and classify the images. The results showed that the DenseNet-201 and Inception-v3 models achieved an accuracy of 98% in plant disease identification and classification, slightly higher than the ResNet-50 model, which achieved an accuracy of 97%, thus demonstrating an effective and promising approach, being able to learn relevant features from the images and classify them accurately. Overall, ML in conjunction with CNNs proved to be an effective tool for identifying and classifying diseases in crop plants. The CNN models used in this work are a very good choice for this type of tasks, since they proved to have a very high performance in classification tasks. In terms of accuracy, all three models are very accurate in image classification, with an accuracy of over 96% with large data sets

Disease Identification in Crop Plants based on Convolutional Neural Networks

"The identification, classification and treatment of crop plant diseases are essential for agricultural production. Some of the most common diseases include root rot, powdery mildew, mosaic, leaf spot and fruit rot. Machine learning (ML) technology and convolutional neural networks (CNN) have proven to be very useful in this field. This work aims to identify and classify diseases in crop plants, from the data set obtained from Plant Village, with images of diseased plant leaves and their corresponding Tags, using CNN with transfer learning. For processing, the dataset composing of more than 87 thousand images, divided into 38 classes and 26 disease types, was used. Three CNN models (DenseNet-201, ResNet-50 and Inception-v3) were used to identify and classify the images. The results showed that the DenseNet-201 and Inception-v3 models achieved an accuracy of 98% in plant disease identification and classification, slightly higher than the ResNet-50 model, which achieved an accuracy of 97%, thus demonstrating an effective and promising approach, being able to learn relevant features from the images and classify them accurately. Overall, ML in conjunction with CNNs proved to be an effective tool for identifying and classifying diseases in crop plants. The CNN models used in this work are a very good choice for this type of tasks, since they proved to have a very high performance in classification tasks. In terms of accuracy, all three models are very accurate in image classification, with an accuracy of over 96% with large data sets

Disease Identification in Crop Plants based on Convolutional Neural Networks

"The identification, classification and treatment of crop plant diseases are essential for agricultural production. Some of the most common diseases include root rot, powdery mildew, mosaic, leaf spot and fruit rot. Machine learning (ML) technology and convolutional neural networks (CNN) have proven to be very useful in this field. This work aims to identify and classify diseases in crop plants, from the data set obtained from Plant Village, with images of diseased plant leaves and their corresponding Tags, using CNN with transfer learning. For processing, the dataset composing of more than 87 thousand images, divided into 38 classes and 26 disease types, was used. Three CNN models (DenseNet-201, ResNet-50 and Inception-v3) were used to identify and classify the images. The results showed that the DenseNet-201 and Inception-v3 models achieved an accuracy of 98% in plant disease identification and classification, slightly higher than the ResNet-50 model, which achieved an accuracy of 97%, thus demonstrating an effective and promising approach, being able to learn relevant features from the images and classify them accurately. Overall, ML in conjunction with CNNs proved to be an effective tool for identifying and classifying diseases in crop plants. The CNN models used in this work are a very good choice for this type of tasks, since they proved to have a very high performance in classification tasks. In terms of accuracy, all three models are very accurate in image classification, with an accuracy of over 96% with large data sets

Disease Identification in Crop Plants based on Convolutional Neural Networks

"The identification, classification and treatment of crop plant diseases are essential for agricultural production. Some of the most common diseases include root rot, powdery mildew, mosaic, leaf spot and fruit rot. Machine learning (ML) technology and convolutional neural networks (CNN) have proven to be very useful in this field. This work aims to identify and classify diseases in crop plants, from the data set obtained from Plant Village, with images of diseased plant leaves and their corresponding Tags, using CNN with transfer learning. For processing, the dataset composing of more than 87 thousand images, divided into 38 classes and 26 disease types, was used. Three CNN models (DenseNet-201, ResNet-50 and Inception-v3) were used to identify and classify the images. The results showed that the DenseNet-201 and Inception-v3 models achieved an accuracy of 98% in plant disease identification and classification, slightly higher than the ResNet-50 model, which achieved an accuracy of 97%, thus demonstrating an effective and promising approach, being able to learn relevant features from the images and classify them accurately. Overall, ML in conjunction with CNNs proved to be an effective tool for identifying and classifying diseases in crop plants. The CNN models used in this work are a very good choice for this type of tasks, since they proved to have a very high performance in classification tasks. In terms of accuracy, all three models are very accurate in image classification, with an accuracy of over 96% with large data sets

A Review on the Application of Natural Computing in Environmental Informatics

Natural computing offers new opportunities to understand, model and analyze the complexity of the physical and human-created environment. This paper examines the application of natural computing in environmental informatics, by investigating related work in this research field. Various nature-inspired techniques are presented, which have been employed to solve different relevant problems. Advantages and disadvantages of these techniques are discussed, together with analysis of how natural computing is generally used in environmental research.Comment: Proc. of EnviroInfo 201