Species classification of brassica napus based on flowers, leaves, and packets using deep neural networks

Abstract

Deep learning (DL) has gradually taken the lead as the most effective approach in the agricultural fields due to the early identification and classification of plant species and diseases for improving the quality of crop production because of recent technological breakthroughs, which have had a significant impact on agriculture. Plenty of complicated problems in farming, including species classification, plant disorder identification, yield approximation, and weather and soil moisture prediction, are made simple using deep neural networks. Thus, this proposed study aims to classify Brassica Napus (B. Napus) rapeseed species based on their most significant features, like flowers, leaves, and packets. The study has adopted two types of rapeseed such as B. Rapa and B. Alba. Five contemporary deep learning-based Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models have also been assessed for distinguishing rapeseed species. These models are DenseNet201, VGG19, InceptionV3, Xception, and ResNet50. Initially, the researchers collected data from the agricultural field, and then image pre-processing is performed to create our dataset. After that, CNN models were applied to this dataset and enumerated the experimental data accordingly. Our DenseNet201 model successfully classified both species with the highest accuracy of 100% for flowers and 97% for both packets and leaves. A comprehensive analysis with companion studies confirmed the efficacy of our preferred paradigm for the near future. Nevertheless, future studies will compare these methodologies to data from a separate metabolomics dataset from comparable crops.