Tea Leaf Diseases Research Articles

YOLOv8-RCAA: A Lightweight and High-Performance Network for Tea Leaf Disease Detection

Deploying deep convolutional neural networks on agricultural devices with limited resources is challenging due to their large number of parameters. Existing lightweight networks can alleviate this problem but suffer from low performance. To this end, we propose a novel lightweight network named YOLOv8-RCAA (YOLOv8-RepVGG-CBAM-Anchorfree-ATSS), aiming to locate and detect tea leaf diseases with high accuracy and performance. Specifically, we employ RepVGG to replace CSPDarkNet63 to enhance feature extraction capability and inference efficiency. Then, we introduce CBAM attention to FPN and PAN in the neck layer to enhance the model perception of channel and spatial features. Additionally, an anchor-based detection head is replaced by an anchor-free head to further accelerate inference. Finally, we adopt the ATSS algorithm to adapt the allocating strategy of positive and negative samples during training to further enhance performance. Extensive experiments show that our model achieves precision, recall, F1 score, and mAP of 98.23%, 85.34%, 91.33%, and 98.14%, outperforming the traditional models by 4.22~6.61%, 2.89~4.65%, 3.48~5.52%, and 4.64~8.04%, respectively. Moreover, this model has a near-real-time inference speed, which provides technical support for deploying on agriculture devices. This study can reduce labor costs associated with the detection and prevention of tea leaf diseases. Additionally, it is expected to promote the integration of rapid disease detection into agricultural machinery in the future, thereby advancing the implementation of AI in agriculture.

Automated detection of selected tea leaf diseases in Bangladesh with convolutional neural network

Globally, tea production and its quality fundamentally depend on tea leaves, which are susceptible to invasion by pathogenic organisms. Precise and early-stage identification of plant foliage diseases is a key element in preventing and controlling the spreading of diseases that hinder yield and quality. Image processing techniques are a sophisticated tool that is rapidly gaining traction in the agricultural sector for the detection of a wide range of diseases with excellent accuracy. This study focuses on a pragmatic approach for automatically detecting selected tea foliage diseases based on convolutional neural network (CNN). A large dataset of 3330 images has been created by collecting samples from different regions of Sylhet division, the tea capital of Bangladesh. The proposed CNN model is developed based on tea leaves affected by red rust, brown blight, grey blight, and healthy leaves. Afterward, the model’s prediction was validated with laboratory tests that included microbial culture media and microscopic analysis. The accuracy of this model was found to be 96.65%. Chiefly, the proposed model was developed in the context of the Bangladesh tea industry.

Classification of tea leaf disease using convolutional neural network approach

Leaf diseases on tea plants affect the quality of tea. This issue must be overcome since preparing tea drinks requires high-quality tea leaves. Various automatic models for identifying disease in tea leaves have been developed; however, their performance is typically low since the extracted features are not selective enough. This work presents a classification model for tea leaf disease that distinguishes six leaf classes: algal spot, brown, blight, grey blight, helopeltis, red spot, and healthy. Deep learning using a convolutional neural network (CNN) builds an effective model for detecting tea leaf illness. The Kaggle public dataset contains 5,980 tea leaf images on a white background. Pre-processing was performed to reduce computing time, which involved shrinking and normalizing the image prior to augmentation. Augmentation techniques included rotation, shear, flip horizontal, and flip vertical. The CNN model was used to classify tea leaf disease using the MobileNetV2 backbone, Adam optimizer, and rectified linear unit (ReLU) activation function with 224×224 input data. The proposed model attained the highest performance, as evidenced by the accuracy value 0.9455.

GS-DeepLabV3+: A mountain tea disease segmentation network based on improved shuffle attention and gated multidimensional feature extraction

The prevention and control of Camellia Oleifera diseases can produce significantly comprehensive economic benefits. And precisely identifying the types of diseases on oil tea leaves can enhance the effectiveness of pest and disease control. Currently, the most effective deep learning methods for segmentation are suffering from the challenges such as indistinct disease spots on the actual oil tea leaves that are difficult to differentiate from the background, the high similarities in characteristics between different diseases, and the small target area of disease regions that are easily ignored. In this paper, GS-DeepLabV3+ network is proposed, which is an improvement upon DeepLabV3+ and aims to effectively enhance disease identification and segmentation rates. Initially, a gated pyramid feature fusion structure is proposed, utilizing a special module to merge features of different dimensions to enhance differentiation of similar features. Secondly, an improved grouped attention fusion mechanism is introduced, which allocates channel and spatial weights to different feature groups, enhancing the extraction of detailed features. Lastly, we substituted the backbone network of DeepLabV3+ with the more lightweight MobileNetV2, which significantly reduces the number of parameters while more stably extracting multidimensional features. In comparison with the existing segmentation networks on a self-created oil tea leaf disease data set, GS-DeepLabV3+ achieved a mIoU of 87.77% and an average pixel accuracy of 94.55%. Compared to the base DeepLabV3+ network, there was a 4.14% improvement in mIoU, a 3.58% increase in mPA, and a 1.4% rise in precision. The improved attention mechanism contributed to a 1.98% increase in mIoU, and the gated multidimensional fusion mechanism resulted in a 1.03% improvement. These enhancements can provide technical references for crop protection and pest disease segmentation.

SM-CycleGAN: crop image data enhancement method based on self-attention mechanism CycleGAN

Crop disease detection and crop baking stage judgement require large image data to improve accuracy. However, the existing crop disease image datasets have high asymmetry, and the poor baking environment leads to image acquisition difficulties and colour distortion. Therefore, we explore the potential of the self-attention mechanism on crop image datasets and propose an innovative crop image data-enhancement method for recurrent generative adversarial networks (GANs) fused with the self-attention mechanism to significantly enhance the perception and information capture capabilities of recurrent GANs. By introducing the self-attention mechanism module, the cycle-consistent GAN (CycleGAN) is more adept at capturing the internal correlations and dependencies of image data, thus more effectively capturing the critical information among image data. Furthermore, we propose a new enhanced loss function for crop image data to optimise the model performance and meet specific task requirements. We further investigate crop image data enhancement in different contexts to validate the performance and stability of the model. The experimental results show that, the peak signal-to-noise ratio of the SM-CycleGAN for tobacco images and tea leaf disease images are improved by 2.13% and 3.55%, and the structural similarity index measure is improved by 1.16% and 2.48% compared to CycleGAN, respectively.

A Small Target Tea Leaf Disease Detection Model Combined with Transfer Learning

Tea cultivation holds significant economic value, yet the leaves of tea plants are frequently susceptible to various pest and disease infestations. Consequently, there is a critical need for research focused on precisely and efficiently detecting these threats to tea crops. The investigation of a model capable of effectively identifying pests and diseases in tea plants is often hindered by challenges, such as limited datasets of pest and disease samples and the small size of detection targets. To address these issues, this study has chosen TLB, a common pest and disease in tea plants, as the primary research subject. The approach involves the application of transfer learning in conjunction with data augmentation as a fundamental methodology. This technique entails transferring knowledge acquired from a comprehensive source data domain to the model, aiming to mitigate the constraints of limited sample sizes. Additionally, to tackle the challenge of detecting small targets, this study incorporates the decoupling detection head TSCODE and integrates the Triplet Attention mechanism into the E-ELAN structure within the backbone to enhance the model’s focus on the TLB’s small targets and optimize detection accuracy. Furthermore, the model’s loss function is optimized based on the Wasserstein distance measure to mitigate issues related to sensitivity in localizing small targets. Experimental results demonstrate that, in comparison to the conventional YOLOv7 tiny model, the proposed model exhibits superior performance on the TLB small sample dataset, with precision increasing by 6.5% to 92.2%, recall by 4.5% to 86.6%, and average precision by 5.8% to 91.5%. This research offers an effective solution for identifying tea pests and diseases, presenting a novel approach to developing a model for detecting such threats in tea cultivation.

Hybrid Neural Network Approach for Tea Leaf Disease Detection Using Pelican and Mayfly Optimization Algorithms

This study addresses the problem of plant diseases and the difficulty of detecting them, and it presents a unique technique for the automatic detection of tea leaf diseases by combining neural networks and optimization techniques. Our research uses a curated database of tea plant leaf photographs that includes healthy and diseased specimens. The neural network (CNN) is trained and fine-tuned using optimization algorithms. To increase disease identification accuracy, we used a hybrid novel optimization algorithm called (POA-MA) which is Pelican Optimization Algorithm (POA), and Mayfly Optimization Algorithm (MA) for feature selection, followed by classification with Support Vector Machine (SVM). The suggested mechanism performance is evaluated using accuracy, MSE, F-score, recall, and sensitivity measures. The suggested CNN-POAMA hybrid model yielded 94.5%, 0.035, 0.91, 0.93, and 0.92, respectively. This study advances precision agriculture by establishing a strong framework for automated detection, allowing for early intervention, and eventually enhancing tea crop health.

Comparison of Machine Learning Algorithms in Detecting Tea Leaf Diseases

Comparison of Machine Learning Algorithms in Detecting Tea Leaf Diseases

Tea leaf disease and insect identification based on improved MobileNetV3.

Accurate detection of tea leaf diseases and insects is crucial for their scientific and effective prevention and control, essential for ensuring the quality and yield of tea. Traditional methods for identifying tea leaf diseases and insects primarily rely on professional technicians, which are difficult to apply in various scenarios. This study proposes a recognition method for tea leaf diseases and insects based on improved MobileNetV3. Initially, a dataset containing images of 17 different types of tea leaf diseases and insects was curated, with data augmentation techniques utilized to broaden recognition scenarios. Subsequently, the network structure of MobileNetV3 was enhanced by integrating the CA (coordinate attention) module to improve the perception of location information. Moreover, a fine-tuning transfer learning strategy was employed to optimize model training and accelerate convergence. Experimental results on the constructed dataset reveal that the initial recognition accuracy of MobileNetV3 is 94.45%, with an F1-score of 94.12%. Without transfer learning, the recognition accuracy of MobileNetV3-CA reaches 94.58%, while with transfer learning, it reaches 95.88%. Through comparative experiments, this study compares the improved algorithm with the original MobileNetV3 model and other classical image classification models (ResNet18, AlexNet, VGG16, SqueezeNet, and ShuffleNetV2). The findings show that MobileNetV3-CA based on transfer learning achieves higher accuracy in identifying tea leaf diseases and insects. Finally, a tea diseases and insects identification application was developed based on this model. The model showed strong robustness and could provide a reliable reference for intelligent diagnosis of tea diseases and insects.

An Integrated Tea Leaf Diseases Identification and Retrieval Model Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning Approach

An Integrated Tea Leaf Diseases Identification and Retrieval Model Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning Approach

Enhancing Tea Leaf Disease Identification with Lightweight MobileNetV2

Enhancing Tea Leaf Disease Identification with Lightweight MobileNetV2

Res4net-CBAM: a deep cnn with convolution block attention module for tea leaf disease diagnosis

Res4net-CBAM: a deep cnn with convolution block attention module for tea leaf disease diagnosis

Performance enhancement of kernelized SVM with deep learning features for tea leaf disease prediction

Performance enhancement of kernelized SVM with deep learning features for tea leaf disease prediction

Identification and profile of phenolamides with anthracnose resistance potential in tea (Camellia sinensis).

Tea anthracnose is a prevalent disease in China that can lead to reduced tea production and lower quality, yet there is currently a lack of effective means for controlling this disease. In this study, we identified 46 phenolamides (including 27 isomers) in different tissues and organs of tea plants based on a developed workflow, and the secondary mass spectra of all these compounds have been documented. It was revealed that tea plants predominantly accumulate protonated aliphatic phenolamides, rather than aromatic phenolamides. The profile of phenolamides indicate that their buildup in tea plants is specific to certain tissues and acyl-acceptors, and this distribution is associated with the extent of phenolamide acyl-modification. Additionally, it was observed that N-Feruloylputrescine (Fer-Put, a type of phenolamides) was responsive to the stimulated accumulation of the tea anthracnose pathogen. The findings of anti-anthracnose experiments in vitro and on tea leaf demonstrated that Fer-Put was capable of significantly inhibiting the growth of anthracnose pathogen colony, effectively prevented tea leaf disease. Furthermore, it was observed that Fer-Put treatment can enhance the antioxidant enzyme activity of tea leaves. TEA002780.1 and TEA013165.1 gene may be responsible for the biosynthesis of Fer-Put in the disease resistance process in tea plants. Through these studies, the types and distribution of phenolamides in tea plants have been elucidated, and Fer-Put's ability to resist anthracnose has been established, providing new insights into the resistance of tea anthracnose.

Classification of Tea Leaf Diseases Based on ResNet-50 and Inception V3

Technological advances have made a major contribution to controlling plant diseases. One method for resolving issues with plant disease identification is the use of deep learning for digital image processing. Tea leaf disease is a plant disease that requires fast and effective control. So, in this study, we adopted the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architectures, namely ResNet-50 and Inception V3, to classify six types of diseases that attack leaves. The amount of data used was 5867, which were divided into six classes, namely healthy leaf, algal spot, brown blight, gray blight, helopeltis, and red spot. The process of distributing the data involves randomly splitting it into three portions, with an allocation of 80% for training, 10% for validation, and 10% for testing. The process of classification is carried out by adjusting the use of batch sizes in the training process to maximizehyperparameters. The batch sizes used are 16, 32, and 64. Using three different batch size scenarios for each model, it shows that ResNet-50 has better performance on batch size 32 with an accuracy value of 97.44%, while Inception V3 has the best performance on batch size 64 with an accuracy of 97.62%..

Tea leaf disease detection and identification based on YOLOv7 (YOLO-T)

A reliable and accurate diagnosis and identification system is required to prevent and manage tea leaf diseases. Tea leaf diseases are detected manually, increasing time and affecting yield quality and productivity. This study aims to present an artificial intelligence-based solution to the problem of tea leaf disease detection by training the fastest single-stage object detection model, YOLOv7, on the diseased tea leaf dataset collected from four prominent tea gardens in Bangladesh. 4000 digital images of five types of leaf diseases are collected from these tea gardens, generating a manually annotated, data-augmented leaf disease image dataset. This study incorporates data augmentation approaches to solve the issue of insufficient sample sizes. The detection and identification results for the YOLOv7 approach are validated by prominent statistical metrics like detection accuracy, precision, recall, mAP value, and F1-score, which resulted in 97.3%, 96.7%, 96.4%, 98.2%, and 0.965, respectively. Experimental results demonstrate that YOLOv7 for tea leaf diseases in natural scene images is superior to existing target detection and identification networks, including CNN, Deep CNN, DNN, AX-Retina Net, improved DCNN, YOLOv5, and Multi-objective image segmentation. Hence, this study is expected to minimize the workload of entomologists and aid in the rapid identification and detection of tea leaf diseases, thus minimizing economic losses.

Tea Leaf Disease Classification using Domain Adaptation Method

Tea trees are extremely vulnerable to diseases and insect pests in the growth process, which seriously affects the yield and quality of tea leaves. This requires the identification and treatment of infected tea leaves in time. With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and computer vision, there is a new trend to identify the images by computer. However, there often exists environmental changes such as illumination intensity, sample angles and background in the leaf images collected in natural scenes, which results in the difference of data distribution. This makes the traditional deep learning method unable to solve the problem of cross-domain classification very well, thus seriously affecting the accuracy of classification. This study mainly focuses on the cross-domain task with unaligned data distribution. A domain-adaptive based method was proposed to realize the cross-domain classification of tea leaf diseases. The experimental results verify the effectiveness of the presented method and provide new thoughts for the cross-domain classification problem in agriculture.

Identification of tea leaf diseases based on deep transfer learning

Tea trees are often vulnerable to diseases and insect pests in the process of growth, resulting in the decline of tea production and quality. It is of great significance to identify and prevent tea leaf diseases in time to ensure the steady increase of tea. This study proposes a tea leaf disease identification method based on deep transfer learning, which improves the recognition accuracy of the model through knowledge transfer. Besides, for the unbalanced distribution of the number of samples, the cross-entropy loss function is replaced with the focal loss function, which further improves the identification effect of the model. The experiment shows that the identification model of tea leaf disease proposed in this study can achieve the accuracy of more than 90.42%, which verifies the effectiveness of this research and has important theoretical and practical significance in promoting the development of intelligent agriculture.

Computer vision based method for severity estimation of tea leaf blight in natural scene images

Tea leaf diseases seriously affect the yield and quality of tea. Early warning and severity estimation of the diseases can be used to guide tea farmers to spray pesticide reasonably. Tea leaves infected with leaf blight are usually damaged, deformed, and occluded. An insufficient number of disease image samples will lead to overfitting of the estimated model. Thus, existing methods based on machine learning can only estimate the severity of tea diseases in natural scene images with low accuracy. Aiming to solve these problems, this study proposes a computer vision based method for the severity estimation of tea leaf blight in RGB images obtained under natural scenes. In this method, the influence of complex backgrounds is reduced by segmenting diseased tea leaves and spots, the problems of partial occlusion, deformation and damage of diseased leaves are solved by area fitting, and the severity of tea leaf blight is accurately estimated by the gradient boosting machine. Compared with classical machine learning methods and conventional convolution neural network methods, the method presented in this study only needs a small number of manually labeled samples and has better accuracy and robustness for the severity estimation of tea leaf blight in natural scene images.

A Novel Approach For the Detection of Tea Leaf Disease Using Deep Neural Network

India is among the biggest tea exporter in the world. However, tea leaf diseases caused by persistent pathogen exposure result in considerable crop yield losses around the world. Detection of the disease of tea leaves at early stages can reduce the damage of tea output. Detecting the disease with the naked eye can be inefficient and counterproductive. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are commonly used to implement an effective method for the image classification. In detection of plant disease, the use of CNN is widespread. Therefore, in the proposed work, a Deep CNN having multiple hidden layers is considered for the classification of diseased tea leaves into different categories. This helps the network in detecting more number of features and thereby improving the accuracy in disease detection. The classification is done consisting of the following categories of leaves; Gray Blight, Algal Spot, Brown Blight, Helopeltis, Healthy Leaves and Red Spot. Further, a labeled dataset consisting of 5867 diseased and healthy tea leaf images have been created and uploaded on Kaggle. The suggested method demonstrates that the model is able to accurately detect the kind of persistent tea leaf disease with a 96.56% accuracy. The accuracy of the following disease classes are as follows, Algal Spot has an accuracy of 98.23%, Brown Blight has an accuracy of 97.98%, Gray Blight has an accuracy of 93.46%, Healthy classes of leaves has an accuracy of 99.10%, the Helopeltis disease class has an accuracy of 98.98% and Red Spot has an accuracy of 92% The model that is proposed in this literature is far superior than the existing methods in terms of accuracy. Furthermore this model can be adopted to work with various IoT devices to deploy in real world applications and the architecture of this model can be used to train different crop images to classify their diseases.