Basic Investigation on a Robust and Practical Plant Diagnostic System

Accurate plant diagnosis requires experts' knowledge but is usually expensive and time consuming. Therefore, it has become necessary to design an accurate, easy, and low-cost automated diagnostic system for plant diseases. In this paper, we propose a new practical plant-disease detection system. We use 7,520 cucumber leaf images comprising images of healthy leaves and those infected by almost all types of viral diseases. The leaves were photographed on site under only one requirement, that is, each image must contain a leaf roughly at its center, thus providing them with a large variety of appearances (i.e., parameters including distance, angle, background, and lighting condition were not uniform). Although half of the images used in this experiment were taken in bad conditions, our classification system based on convolutional neural networks attained an average of 82.3% accuracy under the 4-fold cross validation strategy.

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