Phytosense: A Lightweight System for Real-Time Plant Disease Detection
摘要
This paper presents Phytosense, an ML-based system for the early visual classification and plant disease identification. Employing transfer learning with the MobileNetV2 architecture, we created a computationally efficient, lightweight CNN model trained on the dataset obtained from PlantVillage, which contains over eighty-seven thousand images spanning 38 disease classes. The model demonstrates strong generalization with 95% overall accuracy and high performance metrics such as a ROC-AUC score of 0.999. Designed for scalability and real-time deployment, Phytosense is tailored for integration with low-cost IoT systems, supporting use cases from small-scale gardens to extensive farmland applications.