Plant Disease Diagnosis and Image Classification Using Deep Learning

Indian agriculture is striving to achieve sustainable intensification,the system aiming to increase agricultural yield per unit area without harming natural resources and the ecosystem.Modern farming employs technology to improve productivity.Early and accurate analysis and diagnosis of plant disease is very helpful in reducing plant diseases and improving plant health and food crop productivity.Plant disease experts are not available in remote areas thus there is a requirement of automatic low-cost,approachable and reliable solutions to identify the plant diseases without the laboratory inspection and expert’s opinion.Deep learning-based computer vision techniques like Convolutional Neural Network(CNN)and traditional machine learning-based image classification approaches are being applied to identify plant diseases.In this paper,the CNN model is proposed for the classification of rice and potato plant leaf diseases.Rice leaves are diagnosed with bacterial blight,blast,brown spot and tungro diseases.Potato leaf images are classified into three classes:healthy leaves,early blight and late blight diseases.Rice leaf dataset with 5932 images and 1500 potato leaf images are used in the study.The proposed CNN model was able to learn hidden patterns from the raw images and classify rice images with 99.58%accuracy and potato leaves with 97.66%accuracy.The results demonstrate that the proposed CNN model performed better when compared with other machine learning image classifiers such as Support Vector Machine(SVM),K-Nearest Neighbors(KNN),Decision Tree and Random Forest.

SVM and KNN Based CNN Architectures for Plant Classification

Automatic plant classification through plant leaf is a classical problem in Computer Vision.Plants classification is challenging due to the introduction of new species with a similar pattern and look-a-like.Many efforts are made to automate plant classification using plant leaf,plant flower,bark,or stem.After much effort,it has been proven that leaf is the most reliable source for plant classification.But it is challenging to identify a plant with the help of leaf structure because plant leaf shows similarity in morphological variations,like sizes,textures,shapes,and venation.Therefore,it is required to normalize all plant leaves into the same size to get better performance.Convolutional Neural Networks(CNN)provides a fair amount of accuracy when leaves are classified using this approach.But the performance can be improved by classifying using the traditional approach after applying CNN.In this paper,two approaches,namely CNN+Support Vector Machine(SVM)and CNN+K-Nearest Neighbors(kNN)used on 3 datasets,namely LeafSnap dataset,Flavia Dataset,and MalayaKew Dataset.The datasets are augmented to take care all the possibilities.The assessments and correlations of the predetermined feature extractor models are given.CNN+kNN managed to reach maximum accuracy of 99.5%,97.4%,and 80.04%,respectively,in the three datasets.

Enhanced Marathi Speech Recognition Facilitated by Grasshopper Optimisation-Based Recurrent Neural Network

Communication is a significant part of being human and living in the world.Diverse kinds of languages and their variations are there;thus,one person can speak any language and cannot effectively communicate with one who speaks that language in a different accent.Numerous application fields such as education,mobility,smart systems,security,and health care systems utilize the speech or voice recognition models abundantly.Though,various studies are focused on the Arabic or Asian and English languages by ignoring other significant languages like Marathi that leads to the broader research motivations in regional languages.It is necessary to understand the speech recognition field,in which the major concentrated stages are feature extraction and classification.This paper emphasis developing a Speech Recognition model for the Marathi language by optimizing Recurrent Neural Network(RNN).Here,the preprocessing of the input signal is performed by smoothing and median filtering.After preprocessing the feature extraction is carried out using MFCC and Spectral features to get precise features from the input Marathi Speech corpus.The optimized RNN classifier is used for speech recognition after completing the feature extraction task,where the optimization of hidden neurons in RNN is performed by the Grasshopper Optimization Algorithm(GOA).Finally,the comparison with the conventional techniques has shown that the proposed model outperforms most competing models on a benchmark dataset.