Plant Disease Recognition Research Articles

Rubber Leaf Disease Recognition Based on Improved Deep Convolutional Neural Networks With a Cross-Scale Attention Mechanism.

Natural rubber is an essential raw material for industrial products and plays an important role in social development. A variety of diseases can affect the growth of rubber trees, reducing the production and quality of natural rubber. Therefore, it is of great significance to automatically identify rubber leaf disease. However, in practice, different diseases have complex morphological characteristics of spots and symptoms at different stages and scales, and there are subtle interclass differences and large intraclass variation between the symptoms of diseases. To tackle these challenges, a group multi-scale attention network (GMA-Net) was proposed for rubber leaf disease image recognition. The key idea of our method is to develop a group multi-scale dilated convolution (GMDC) module for multi-scale feature extraction as well as a cross-scale attention feature fusion (CAFF) module for multi-scale attention feature fusion. Specifically, the model uses a group convolution structure to reduce model parameters and provide multiple branches and then embeds multiple dilated convolutions to improve the model’s adaptability to the scale variability of disease spots. Furthermore, the CAFF module is further designed to drive the network to learn the attentional features of multi-scale diseases and strengthen the disease features fusion at different scales. In this article, a dataset of rubber leaf diseases was constructed, including 2,788 images of four rubber leaf diseases and healthy leaves. Experimental results show that the accuracy of the model is 98.06%, which was better than other state-of-the-art approaches. Moreover, the model parameters of GMA-Net are only 0.65 M, and the model size is only 5.62 MB. Compared with MobileNetV1, V2, and ShuffleNetV1, V2 lightweight models, the model parameters and size are reduced by more than half, but the recognition accuracy is also improved by 3.86–6.1%. In addition, to verify the robustness of this model, we have also verified it on the PlantVillage public dataset. The experimental results show that the recognition accuracy of our proposed model is 99.43% on the PlantVillage dataset, which is also better than other state-of-the-art approaches. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified, and it can be used for plant disease recognition.

Style-Consistent Image Translation: A Novel Data Augmentation Paradigm to Improve Plant Disease Recognition.

Deep learning shows its advantages and potentials in plant disease recognition and has witnessed a profound development in recent years. To obtain a competing performance with a deep learning algorithm, enough amount of annotated data is requested but in the natural world, scarce or imbalanced data are common, and annotated data is expensive or hard to collect. Data augmentation, aiming to create variations for training data, has shown its power for this issue. But there are still two challenges: creating more desirable variations for scarce and imbalanced data, and designing a data augmentation to ease object detection and instance segmentation. First, current algorithms made variations only inside one specific class, but more desirable variations can further promote performance. To address this issue, we propose a novel data augmentation paradigm that can adapt variations from one class to another. In the novel paradigm, an image in the source domain is translated into the target domain, while the variations unrelated to the domain are maintained. For example, an image with a healthy tomato leaf is translated into a powdery mildew image but the variations of the healthy leaf are maintained and transferred into the powdery mildew class, such as types of tomato leaf, sizes, and viewpoints. Second, current data augmentation is suitable to promote the image classification model but may not be appropriate to alleviate object detection and instance segmentation model, mainly because the necessary annotations can not be obtained. In this study, we leverage a prior mask as input to tell the area we are interested in and reuse the original annotations. In this way, our proposed algorithm can be utilized to do the three tasks simultaneously. Further, We collect 1,258 images of tomato leaves with 1,429 instance segmentation annotations as there is more than one instance in one single image, including five diseases and healthy leaves. Extensive experimental results on the collected images validate that our new data augmentation algorithm makes useful variations and contributes to improving performance for diverse deep learning-based methods.

Plant Disease Recognition Model Based on Improved YOLOv5

To accurately recognize plant diseases under complex natural conditions, an improved plant disease-recognition model based on the original YOLOv5 network model was established. First, a new InvolutionBottleneck module was used to reduce the numbers of parameters and calculations, and to capture long-distance information in the space. Second, an SE module was added to improve the sensitivity of the model to channel features. Finally, the loss function ‘Generalized Intersection over Union’ was changed to ‘Efficient Intersection over Union’ to address the former’s degeneration into ‘Intersection over Union’. These proposed methods were used to improve the target recognition effect of the network model. In the experimental phase, to verify the effectiveness of the model, sample images were randomly selected from the constructed rubber tree disease database to form training and test sets. The test results showed that the mean average precision of the improved YOLOv5 network reached 70%, which is 5.4% higher than that of the original YOLOv5 network. The precision values of this model for powdery mildew and anthracnose detection were 86.5% and 86.8%, respectively. The overall detection performance of the improved YOLOv5 network was significantly better compared with those of the original YOLOv5 and the YOLOX_nano network models. The improved model accurately identified plant diseases under natural conditions, and it provides a technical reference for the prevention and control of plant diseases.

A Plant Disease Recognition Method Based on Fusion of Images and Graph Structure Text.

The disease image recognition models based on deep learning have achieved relative success under limited and restricted conditions, but such models are generally subjected to the shortcoming of weak robustness. The model accuracy would decrease obviously when recognizing disease images with complex backgrounds under field conditions. Moreover, most of the models based on deep learning only involve characterization learning on visual information in the image form, while the expression of other modal information rather than the image form is often ignored. The present study targeted the main invasive diseases in tomato and cucumber as the research object. Firstly, in response to the problem of weak robustness, a feature decomposition and recombination method was proposed to allow the model to learn image features at different granularities so as to accurately recognize different test images. Secondly, by extracting the disease feature words from the disease text description information composed of continuous vectors and recombining them into the disease graph structure text, the graph convolutional neural network (GCN) was then applied for feature learning. Finally, a vegetable disease recognition model based on the fusion of images and graph structure text was constructed. The results show that the recognition accuracy, precision, sensitivity, and specificity of the proposed model were 97.62, 92.81, 98.54, and 93.57%, respectively. This study improved the model robustness to a certain extent, and provides ideas and references for the research on the fusion method of image information and graph structure information in disease recognition.

Research of Image Recognition of Plant Diseases and Pests Based on Deep Learning

Deep learning has attracted more and more attention in speech recognition, visual recognition and other fields. In the field of image processing, using deep learning method can obtain high recognition rate. In this paper, the convolution neural network is used as the basic model of deep learning. The shortcomings of the model are analyzed, and the DBN is used for the image recognition of diseases and insect pests. In the experiment, firstly, we select 10 kinds of disease and pest leaves and 50000 normal leaves, each of which is used for the comparison of algorithm performance.In the judgment of disease and pest species, the algorithm proposed in this study can identify all kinds of diseases and insect pests to the maximum extent, but the corresponding software (openCV, Access) recognition accuracy will gradually reduce along with the increase of the types of diseases and insect pests. In this study, the algorithm proposed in the identification of diseases and insect pests has been kept at about 45%.

A Single Stream Modified MobileNet V2 and Whale Controlled Entropy Based Optimization Framework for Citrus Fruit Diseases Recognition

Fruit disease recognition is quickly becoming a hot topic in the field of computer vision. The presence of plant diseases not only reduces fruit production but also causes a significant loss to the national economy. Citrus fruits help to strengthen the immune system, allowing it to fight off diseases such as COVID-19. Manual inspection of fruit diseases with the naked eye takes time and is difficult; therefore, a computer based method is always required for accurate recognition of plant diseases. Several deep learning techniques for recognizing citrus fruit diseases have been introduced in the literature. Existing techniques had several issues, including redundant features, convolutional neural network (CNN) model selection, low contrast images, and long computational times. In this paper, a single stream convolutional neural network architecture is proposed for recognizing citrus fruit diseases. In the first step, data augmentation is performed using four contrast enhancement operations: shadow removal, adjusting pixel intensity, improving brightness, and improving local contrast. The MobileNet-V2 CNN model is selected and fine-tuned in the second step. Using the transfer learning process, the fine-tuned model is trained on the augmented citrus dataset. The newly trained model is used for deep feature extraction; however, analysis shows that the extracted deep features contain little redundant information. As a result, an improved Whale Optimization Algorithm (IWOA) is used in the third step. The best features are then classified using machine learning classifiers in the final step. The augmented citrus fruits, leaves, and hybrid dataset were used in the experimental process and achieved an accuracy of 99.4, 99.5, and 99.7%. When compared to existing techniques, the proposed architecture outperformed them in terms of accuracy and time.

Using Brainwave Patterns Recorded from Plant Pathology Experts to Increase the Reliability of AI-Based Plant Disease Recognition System

Using Brainwave Patterns Recorded from Plant Pathology Experts to Increase the Reliability of AI-Based Plant Disease Recognition System

Crop Disease Recognition Based on Modified Light-Weight CNN With Attention Mechanism

The agricultural production is greatly affected by various plant diseases. Classifying the severity of crop diseases is the requirement for formulating disease prevention and control strategies. However, the differences between different severity of the same crop disease are very tiny. It increases the difficulty of correct crop disease recognition. For example, at the early stage of the disease, the lesions on the leaves are not obvious. And it is very difficult to extract the features of the lesions. However, these very small color and texture differences of the lesions are the key patterns to distinguish different kinds of diseases of the same species. In order to achieve better performance in the fine-grained classification of the crop diseases, a modified light-weight convolution neural network was proposed. Multi-scale convolution kernel and coordinate attention mechanism are introduced in SqueezeNext to extract the features of the lesions accurately. The performance of the proposed model was evaluated using the AI challenger 2018 plant disease recognition dataset, and the recognition accuracy can reach 91.94%, which is 3.02% point higher than the original SqueezeNext model. In order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed model, comparative experiments were carried out using ReseNet50, Xception and mobilenetv2. The experimental results showed that the accuracy of the proposed method was slightly better than Xception, while the model size is only 2.83 MB, which is only 3.45% of Xception. The proposed method balances the performance and efficiency very well. Thus, it is suitable for deployment on mobile terminals and other embedded resource-constrained devices, which help to promote the popularization of smart agriculture application.

MACHINE LEARNING ഉപയോഗിച്ചുള്ള വിളകളിലെ രോഗനിർണയവും കണ്ടെത്തലും – ഒരു പഠനം

As we belong to a developing country, the agricultural importance is a known criterion. Majority of the Indians depend on agriculture for their basic living. It also serves as the backbone of the Indian economy. Therefore this sector should be considered important and taken care of. Diseases affecting the plants and pest are the two major threats of agriculture production. Naked eye observation followed by the addition of chemical fertilizers is the traditional method adopted by most of the farmers to avoid plant diseases. But the main limitation to this method is that it works only in the case of small scale farming. In order to tackle this issue many automatic plant disease detection systems have been developed from the early 70s. This paper is intended to survey some of the existing works in plant disease recognition that include various procedures, materials and approaches. They use different machine learning algorithms, image processing techniques and deep learning methods for disease detection. This paper also compares and suggests novel methods to recognize and classify the various kinds of infections affecting agricultural plants.

Improving Accuracy of Tomato Plant Disease Diagnosis Based on Deep Learning With Explicit Control of Hidden Classes.

Recognizing plant diseases is a major challenge in agriculture, and recent works based on deep learning have shown high efficiency in addressing problems directly related to this area. Nonetheless, weak performance has been observed when a model trained on a particular dataset is evaluated in new greenhouse environments. Therefore, in this work, we take a step towards these issues and present a strategy to improve model accuracy by applying techniques that can help refine the model’s generalization capability to deal with complex changes in new greenhouse environments. We propose a paradigm called “control to target classes.” The core of our approach is to train and validate a deep learning-based detector using target and control classes on images collected in various greenhouses. Then, we apply the generated features for testing the inference of the system on data from new greenhouse conditions where the goal is to detect target classes exclusively. Therefore, by having explicit control over inter- and intra-class variations, our model can distinguish data variations that make the system more robust when applied to new scenarios. Experiments demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed approach on our extended tomato plant diseases dataset with 14 classes, from which 5 are target classes and the rest are control classes. Our detector achieves a recognition rate of target classes of 93.37% mean average precision on the inference dataset. Finally, we believe that our study offers valuable guidelines for researchers working in plant disease recognition with complex input data.

Image-Based Hot Pepper Disease and Pest Diagnosis Using Transfer Learning and Fine-Tuning.

Past studies of plant disease and pest recognition used classification methods that presented a singular recognition result to the user. Unfortunately, incorrect recognition results may be output, which may lead to further crop damage. To address this issue, there is a need for a system that suggest several candidate results and allow the user to make the final decision. In this study, we propose a method for diagnosing plant diseases and identifying pests using deep features based on transfer learning. To extract deep features, we employ pre-trained VGG and ResNet 50 architectures based on the ImageNet dataset, and output disease and pest images similar to a query image via a k-nearest-neighbor algorithm. In this study, we use a total of 23,868 images of 19 types of hot-pepper diseases and pests, for which, the proposed model achieves accuracies of 96.02 and 99.61%, respectively. We also measure the effects of fine-tuning and distance metrics. The results show that the use of fine-tuning-based deep features increases accuracy by approximately 0.7–7.38%, and the Bray–Curtis distance achieves an accuracy of approximately 0.65–1.51% higher than the Euclidean distance.

Open Set Self and Across Domain Adaptation for Tomato Disease Recognition With Deep Learning Techniques.

Recent advances in automatic recognition systems based on deep learning technology have shown the potential to provide environmental-friendly plant disease monitoring. These systems are able to reliably distinguish plant anomalies under varying environmental conditions as the basis for plant intervention using methods such as classification or detection. However, they often show a performance decay when applied under new field conditions and unseen data. Therefore, in this article, we propose an approach based on the concept of open-set domain adaptation to the task of plant disease recognition to allow existing systems to operate in new environments with unseen conditions and farms. Our system specifically copes diagnosis as an open set learning problem, and mainly operates in the target domain by exploiting a precise estimation of unknown data while maintaining the performance of the known classes. The main framework consists of two modules based on deep learning that perform bounding box detection and open set self and across domain adaptation. The detector is built based on our previous filter bank architecture for plant diseases recognition and enforces domain adaptation from the source to the target domain, by constraining data to be classified as one of the target classes or labeled as unknown otherwise. We perform an extensive evaluation on our tomato plant diseases dataset with three different domain farms, which indicates that our approach can efficiently cope with changes of new field environments during field-testing and observe consistent gains from explicit modeling of unseen data.

Classification of plant diseases using machine and deep learning

Abstract Detection of plant disease has a crucial role in better understanding the economy of India in terms of agricultural productivity. Early recognition and categorization of diseases in plants are very crucial as it can adversely affect the growth and development of species. Numerous machine learning methods like SVM (support vector machine), random forest, KNN (k-nearest neighbor), Naïve Bayes, decision tree, etc., have been exploited for recognition, discovery, and categorization of plant diseases; however, the advancement of machine learning by DL (deep learning) is supposed to possess tremendous potential in enhancing the accuracy. This paper proposed a model comprising of Auto-Color Correlogram as image filter and DL as classifiers with different activation functions for plant disease. This proposed model is implemented on four different datasets to solve binary and multiclass subcategories of plant diseases. Using the proposed model, results achieved are better, obtaining 99.4% accuracy and 99.9% sensitivity for binary class and 99.2% accuracy for multiclass. It is proven that the proposed model outperforms other approaches, namely LibSVM, SMO (sequential minimal optimization), and DL with activation function softmax and softsign in terms of F-measure, recall, MCC (Matthews correlation coefficient), specificity and sensitivity.

Towards automatic field plant disease recognition

Plant disease is a significant threat to food security and subsistence farmers. Despite the rapid development of automatic recognition of plant disease under controlled laboratory conditions since the employment of deep learning technology, it is still quite challenging to distinguish plant disease under uncontrolled field conditions. In this paper, based on a backbone convolutional neural network (CNN), we propose an improved CNN model towards field plant disease recognition (FPDR) by exploring the potential and generalization capabilities of the CNN model. To train the model, we propose background replacing to make the model more robust to background distraction, and leaf resizing to deal with inconsistent size and location of disease symptoms. Both background replacing and leaf resizing are used as data augmentation methods of the improved model. To further enhance the feature discriminativeness, we propose channel orthogonal constraint to improve the ability of feature to distinguish similar categories, and utilize species information as an auxiliary species classification task. In addition, we collect 665 plant disease images under field conditions, namely Field-PlantVillage (Field-PV) to remedy for lack of in-the-field images. The Field-PV is only used as an independent test set to evaluate the performance of the method applied to FPDR. Our improved CNN model improves the FPDR accuracy on Field-PV from 41.81% to 72.03%, though only the PlantVillage dataset is used for training. Experimental result on the PlantVillage achieves the state of the art performance (99.84%). Code and data are available at https://github.com/PatrickGui/FPDR/tree/master.

Dual-branch, efficient, channel attention-based crop disease identification

Efficient and accurate recognition of crop diseases plays an important role in disease prevention. Aiming at the low accuracy of existing crop disease recognition methods, we improve the attention mechanism and residual neural network (ResNet) to propose a dual-branch, efficient, channel attention (DECA)-based crop disease recognition model. The DECA module uses a dual-branch 1D convolution operation to filter effective feature information. It also introduces an adaptive convolution kernel parameter kand an adaptive parameter αto participate in the reverse training of the model so that the model can independently select effective features and establish dependencies between channels. Then, the DECA module is added to the residual module to recalibrate the channel characteristics and improve the characteristic representability of the residual module. Finally, a DECA_ResNet model is proposed to realize crop disease recognition. The crop disease model based on improved attention is verified on the AI Challenger 2018 dataset, PlantVillage dataset, and self-collected cucumber disease dataset; the disease recognition accuracies are 86.35%, 99.74% and 98.54%, respectively, which are higher than those of the ResNet and squeeze-and-excitation network (SENet) before improvement. The recognition accuracy of the proposed model in the PlantVillage dataset is higher than that of existing models. The experimental results show that the proposed plant recognition model with 18 layers (DECA_ResNet18) can achieve a high recognition accuracy. The DECA module can independently select each branch feature without causing a significant increase in the number of parameters, which improves the plant disease recognition accuracy and reduces the extraction of redundant features.

Leveraging Convolutional Neural Network and Transfer Learning for Cotton Plant and Leaf Disease Recognition

Leveraging Convolutional Neural Network and Transfer Learning for Cotton Plant and Leaf Disease Recognition

Optimization Techniques for Detection and Recognition of Plant Leaf Diseases Using IOT and Image Segmentation

On the earlier days, considerable effort has been put into building a database of plant diseases that is sufficient to develop effective methods for the detection and recognition of plant diseases. Since then, nutrition become an important factor throughout Asia, where the poorest people live. At the moment, the main purpose of agriculture is to produce and nourish the nation. Diagnosis and identification on a very large scale area through automated procedures is very helpful as it reduces labor, time and cost of diagnosing and diagnosing disease symptoms. The project reports on the novel's method of diagnosing diseases in rice leaf by employing an advanced algorithm such as the modified SqueezeNet to enhance accuracy to a greater stage. Incorporating the loss reduction process as one of the categorical cross entropy to enhance accurate level. An improved application is being developed where we can capture the image of the affected crop and propose the type of chemical fertilizer that will be used by the farmer to reduce crop losses due to improper fertilizer use.

Semi-supervised few-shot learning approach for plant diseases recognition

BackgroundLearning from a few samples to automatically recognize the plant leaf diseases is an attractive and promising study to protect the agricultural yield and quality. The existing few-shot classification studies in agriculture are mainly based on supervised learning schemes, ignoring unlabeled data's helpful information.MethodsIn this paper, we proposed a semi-supervised few-shot learning approach to solve the plant leaf diseases recognition. Specifically, the public PlantVillage dataset is used and split into the source domain and target domain. Extensive comparison experiments considering the domain split and few-shot parameters (N-way, k-shot) were carried out to validate the correctness and generalization of proposed semi-supervised few-shot methods. In terms of selecting pseudo-labeled samples in the semi-supervised process, we adopted the confidence interval to determine the number of unlabeled samples for pseudo-labelling adaptively.ResultsThe average improvement by the single semi-supervised method is 2.8%, and that by the iterative semi-supervised method is 4.6%.ConclusionsThe proposed methods can outperform other related works with fewer labeled training data.

LeLePhid: An Image Dataset for Aphid Detection and Infestation Severity on Lemon Leaves

Aphids are small insects that feed on plant sap, and they belong to a superfamily called Aphoidea. They are among the major pests causing damage to citrus crops in most parts of the world. Precise and automatic identification of aphids is needed to understand citrus pest dynamics and management. This article presents a dataset that contains 665 healthy and unhealthy lemon leaf images. The latter are leaves with the presence of aphids, and visible white spots characterize them. Moreover, each image includes a set of annotations that identify the leaf, its health state, and the infestation severity according to the percentage of the affected area on it. Images were collected manually in real-world conditions in a lemon plant field in Junín, Manabí, Ecuador, during the winter, by using a smartphone camera. The dataset is called LeLePhid: lemon (Le) leaf (Le) image dataset for aphid (Phid) detection and infestation severity. The data can facilitate evaluating models for image segmentation, detection, and classification problems related to plant disease recognition.

Biotic Yield Losses in the Southern Amazon, Brazil: Making Use of Smartphone-Assisted Plant Disease Diagnosis Data.

Pathogens and animal pests (P&A) are a major threat to global food security as they directly affect the quantity and quality of food. The Southern Amazon, Brazil’s largest domestic region for soybean, maize and cotton production, is particularly vulnerable to the outbreak of P&A due to its (sub)tropical climate and intensive farming systems. However, little is known about the spatial distribution of P&A and the related yield losses. Machine learning approaches for the automated recognition of plant diseases can help to overcome this research gap. The main objectives of this study are to (1) evaluate the performance of Convolutional Neural Networks (ConvNets) in classifying P&A, (2) map the spatial distribution of P&A in the Southern Amazon, and (3) quantify perceived yield and economic losses for the main soybean and maize P&A. The objectives were addressed by making use of data collected with the smartphone application Plantix. The core of the app’s functioning is the automated recognition of plant diseases via ConvNets. Data on expected yield losses were gathered through a short survey included in an “expert” version of the application, which was distributed among agronomists. Between 2016 and 2020, Plantix users collected approximately 78,000 georeferenced P&A images in the Southern Amazon. The study results indicate a high performance of the trained ConvNets in classifying 420 different crop-disease combinations. Spatial distribution maps and expert-based yield loss estimates indicate that maize rust, bacterial stalk rot and the fall armyworm are among the most severe maize P&A, whereas soybean is mainly affected by P&A like anthracnose, downy mildew, frogeye leaf spot, stink bugs and brown spot. Perceived soybean and maize yield losses amount to 12 and 16%, respectively, resulting in annual yield losses of approximately 3.75 million tonnes for each crop and economic losses of US$2 billion for both crops together. The high level of accuracy of the trained ConvNets, when paired with widespread use from following a citizen-science approach, results in a data source that will shed new light on yield loss estimates, e.g., for the analysis of yield gaps and the development of measures to minimise them.