A Convolutional Neural Network based System to Detect Plant Disease

Abstract

Disease in plants are a great challenge in the advancement of agriculture which affects farmers yield and the plants. In this modern research deep learning models got a spot light by increasing plant detection accuracy and classification. The proposed CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) model detect seven plant diseases out of healthy leaf, where the dataset considered in this work contain 8685 leaf images from Plant Village Dataset. The proposed modals performance are evaluated with respect to the performance metrics (F1 score, Precision and Recall) and are compared with SVM and ANN. Where the proposed CNN model outperforms the rest with the accuracy of 96.2% and the F1 score greater than 95%. The feasibility of the proposed model in plant detection and classification may provide a solution to the problem faced by farmers.