Sailfish Optimizer with EfficientNet Model for Apple Leaf Disease Detection

Recent developments in digital cameras and electronic gadgets coupled with Machine Learning(ML)and Deep Learning(DL)-based automated apple leaf disease detection models are commonly employed as reasonable alternatives to traditional visual inspection models.In this background,the current paper devises an Effective Sailfish Optimizer with EfficientNet-based Apple Leaf disease detection(ESFO-EALD)model.The goal of the proposed ESFO-EALD technique is to identify the occurrence of plant leaf diseases automatically.In this scenario,Median Filtering(MF)approach is utilized to boost the quality of apple plant leaf images.Moreover,SFO with Kapur’s entropy-based segmentation technique is also utilized for the identification of the affected plant region from test image.Furthermore,Adam optimizer with EfficientNet-based feature extraction and Spiking Neural Network(SNN)-based classification are employed to detect and classify the apple plant leaf images.A wide range of simulations was conducted to ensure the effective outcomes of ESFO-EALD technique on benchmark dataset.The results reported the supremacy of the proposed ESFO-EALD approach than the existing approaches.