Convolutional Neural Network-Based Classification Model of Corn Leaf Disease

Abstract

The decline in corn production can affect the continuity of food grown in society, especially in Indonesia, which is a country with a high level of corn consumers. Several factors cause a decrease in the production of corn plants, one of which is unhealthy plants so that their growth slows down and even makes the corn plants not bear fruit or are damaged. Therefore, a system is needed that can identify diseases in corn plants so that appropriate treatment can be carried out as early as possible to prevent severe damage to corn plants. With this research, the system can be built by utilizing machine learning in building a classification system using the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) algorithm with a dataset of corn leaf images taken from farmers' fields in the Madura Region with four target classes namely healthy, gray leaf spot, blight, and common rust. Testing was carried out using several CNN architectural models such as SqueezeNet, AlexNet, ResNet-101, ResNet-50, and ResNet-18. The parameters used were 5 epochs with 100 iterations, a learning rate of 0.0001, using Adam optimization, and a data distribution of 70% for training data and 30% for testing data. The test results obtained in classifying corn images using the Convolutional Neural Network method with the ResNet-50 architecture provide a very good accuracy value of 95.59%.