Plant Leaf Disease Identification and Classification using Deep Learning Technique

Abstract

In countries like India, whose important occupation is agriculture, face a huge loss when the crops get affected by any type of disease. These diseases attack the crops in various stages and can destroy the entire production. Since most diseases are transmitted from one crop to another there is an essential requirement to detect the type of disease in the early stage so that farmers can take the required action to “save the crops” and production. However, detection of the kind of disease in a huge amount of crops is very difficult for farmers, and sometimes it becomes more difficult due to lake of knowledge about the disease since there are various kinds of diseases. The automated detection of crop disease with images has been done using many classification techniques, such as k- Nearest Neighbor Classifier, Probabilistic Neural Network, Genetic Algorithm, Support Vector Machine, and Main Component Analysis, Artificial Neural Network, and Fuzzy Logic. In this paper to improve detection capability, CNN has been used with an available database having sufficient knowledge of the disease. In this simulation, analysis of CNN-based leaf disease detection has been done for different values of learning rate and with different training algorithms. K-fold cross-validation has been used for the validation of the classifier. With this configuration, ~90% accuracy has been achieved