Image based anthracnose and red-rust leaf disease detection using deep learning

Abstract

Deep residual learning frameworks have achieved great success in image classification. This article presents the use of transfer learning which is applied on mango leaf image dataset for its disease’s detection. New methodology and training have been used to facilitate the easy and rapid implementation of the mango leaf disease detection system in practice. Proposed system can be used to identify the mango leaf for whether it is healthy or infected with the diseases like anthracnose or red rust. This paper describes all the steps which are considered during the experimentation and design. These steps include leaf image data collection, its preparation, data assessment by agricultural experts, and selection and tranning of deep neural network architectures. A deep residual framework, residual neural network (ResNET), was used to perform deep convolutional neural network training. ResNETs are easy to optimize and can achieve better accuracies. The experimental results obtained from “ResNET architectures, such as ResNet18, ResNet34, ResNet50, and ResNet101” show the accuracies from 94% to 98%. ResNET18 architecture selected from above for system design as it gives 98% accuracy for mango leaf disease’s detection. System will help farmers to identify leaf diseases in quick and efficient manner and facilitate decision-making in this front.