Chili Leaves Disease Detection Using Thermal Images and Deep Learning Classification
摘要
To boost agricultural productivity we must be efficient in disease management of crops. The paper aims to aid Indian farmers in quickly detecting and curing agricultural diseases by applying state-of-the-art Deep Learning algorithms for classifying diseases in chili leaves. In this study, the authors evaluated the performance of ResNet, MobileNet, and VGG16 architectures proposed detecting the four categories of a leaf, Powdery Mildew, Bacterial Spot, Leaf Curl, and Healthy Leaves on thermal spectrogram-based images. To ensure the model trains correctly, the dataset containing images of different diseases is put through preprocessing [2] steps like scaling and standardization. Every model makes a serious pain in tuning the optimal hyperparameters in cause to improve the accuracy of prediction. The models are benchmarked with various evaluation metrics like F1-score, recall, accuracy, and precision. Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus and Xylella fastidiosa. The three models selected were able to correctly identify these two diseases of chili leaves. This work contributes to the development of precision agriculture since optimizing the crop yield and quality, indicating a scalable disease classification and enables early treatments.