A Progressive Hierarchical Model for Plant Disease Diagnosis
摘要
This study addresses the critical issue of automated plant disease detection, offering a solution to enhance agricultural productivity and mitigate losses. Traditional disease detection methods involve labour-intensive manual scouting and visual inspection, which are time-consuming and prone to errors. In response to these challenges, this research harnesses advanced image processing and machine learning algorithms to develop an automated mechanism for disease detection in cultivated plants. Local Binary Pattern (LBP) is used for texture feature extraction, and Decision Tree, Random Forest, Logistic Regression, Gradient Boosting, Naive Bayes, and KNN are used for detection. Deep learning techniques, specifically Faster R-CNN with the ResNet50 deep feature extractor, are utilised to detect and classify various plant diseases. The proposed system is trained and tested on a diverse dataset encompassing a wide range of plant species and disease types. Our system identifies plant diseases through the images of plant leaves, provide accurate information to farmers.