摘要
To meet the food requirements of the seven billion people on Earth,multiple advancements in agriculture and industry have been made.The main threat to food items is from diseases and pests which affect the quality and quantity of food.Different scientific mechanisms have been developed to protect plants and fruits from pests and diseases and to increase the quantity and quality of food.Still these mechanisms require manual efforts and human expertise to diagnose diseases.In the current decade Artificial Intelligence is used to automate different processes,including agricultural processes,such as automatic harvesting.Machine Learning techniques are becoming popular to process images and identify different objects.We can use Machine Learning algorithms for disease identification in plants for automatic harvesting that can help us to increase the quantity of the food produced and reduce crop losses.In this paper,we develop a novel Convolutional Neural Network(CNN)model that can detect diseases in peach plants and fruits.The proposed method can also locate the region of disease and help farmers to find appropriate treatments to protect peach crops.For the detection of diseases in Peaches VGG-19 architecture is utilized.For the localization of disease regions Mask R-CNN is utilized.The proposed technique is evaluated using different techniques and has demonstrated 94%accuracy.We hope that the system can help farmers to increase peach production to meet food demands.
基金
The authors received funding for this study from Taif University Researchers Supporting Project No.(TURSP-2020/254),Taif University,Taif,Saudi Arabia.