Recognition of plant leaf diseases based on computer vision
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ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Recognition of plant leaf diseases based on computer vision Y. A. Nanehkaran1 · Defu Zhang1 · Junde Chen1 · Yuan Tian2 · Najla Al‑Nabhan3 Received: 2 June 2020 / Accepted: 27 August 2020 © Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Agriculture is one of the most important sources of income for people in many countries. However, plant disease issues influence many farmers, as diseases in plants often naturally occur. If proper care is not taken, diseases can have hazardous effects on plants and influence the product quality, quantity or productivity. Therefore, the detection and prevention of plant diseases are serious concerns and should be considered to increase productivity. An effective identification technology can be beneficial for monitoring plant diseases. Generally, the leaves of plants show the first signs of plant disease, and most diseases can be detected from the symptoms that appear on the leaves. Therefore, this paper introduces a novel method for the detection of plant leaf diseases. The method is divided into two parts: image segmentation and image classification. First, a hue, saturation and intensity-based and LAB-based hybrid segmentation algorithm is proposed and used for the disease symptom segmentation of plant disease images. Then, the segmented images are input into a convolutional neural network for image classification. The validation accuracy obtained using this approach was approximately 15.51% higher than that for the conventional method. Additionally, the detection results showed that the average detection rate was 75.59% under complex background conditions, and most of the diseases were effectively detected. Thus, the approach of combined segmentation and classification is effective for plant disease identification, and our empirical research validates the advantages of the proposed method. Keywords Plant disease recognition · Image segmentation · Image classification · Color space · Convolutional neural networks
1 Introduction When plant diseases happen, it has considerable negative influences on the quantity and quality of products. The risk of food insecurity will increase these diseases are not * Defu Zhang [email protected] Y. A. Nanehkaran [email protected] Yuan Tian [email protected] Najla Al‑Nabhan [email protected] 1
Informatics School of Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, Fujian, People’s Republic of China
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School of Computer Engineering, Nanjing Institute of Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China
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Department of Computer Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
diagnosed in time (Faithpraise et al. 2013). Some agricultural products, including maize and rice, are the most important food sources, and plant diseases should be controlled as much as possible to maintain the quality of crops. Therefore, to make sure about the operation and high quality of agricultural products the diagnosis of plant diseases plays a vital role. However, so far, the most important method to dia
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