Classification of Diseases on Corn Stalks using a Random Forest based on a Combination of the Feature Extraction (Local Binary Pattern and Color Histogram)

Abstract

Corn disease has a significant impact on both the food industry and the yield of corn crops since corn serves as a fundamental and essential source of nutrition, especially for vegetarians and vegans. Therefore, ensuring the quality of corn is crucial, and to achieve this, protection against various diseases is necessary. Consequently, there is a pressing demand for an automated method capable of early-stage disease detection and prompt action. However, detecting diseases at an early stage poses a major challenge and is of utmost importance. This research focuses on the development of a classification model for corn stalk images using Random Forest. The model generates fine and coarse features of high quality to capture discriminative, boundary, pattern, and structural information used in the classification process. This research also utilizes the LBP (Local Binary Pattern) method and Color Histogram in the feature extraction process to obtain information related to texture and distinguishing patterns, that are employed in the classification process. Furthermore, the proposed model is evaluated using the corn plant image dataset, which was directly captured by the researcher in Madura, and consists of 3,000 data. The result of this research shows that the utilization of the proposed method can classify and identifying diseases in new data of digital images of corn stalks with an accuracy rate of 99.05%.