Agricultural Pest Classification Using Dense Network with Statistical Approach to Dataset Balancing
摘要
Agricultural pests cause significant damage to food crops globally, leading to food scarcity for the human population. Timely identification of pests is crucial for selecting appropriate pest control methods, which is not possible manually. Deep Learning methods have proved very efficient in this regard, and many pre-trained Convolutional Neural Network models, like ResNet, DenseNet, VGGNet, and Inception-based models, are available for image processing tasks. This paper proposes a statistical approach and oversampling using geometric transformations to reduce data imbalance in the IP102 dataset and implement multiple pre-trained CNN models to classify pest species to improve prediction accuracy.