Towards Intelligent Detection and Classification of Rice Plant Diseases Based on Leaf Image Dataset

The detection of rice leaf disease is significant because,as an agricultural and rice exporter country,Pakistan needs to advance in production and lower the risk of diseases.In this rapid globalization era,information technology has increased.A sensing system is mandatory to detect rice diseases using Artificial Intelligence(AI).It is being adopted in all medical and plant sciences fields to access and measure the accuracy of results and detection while lowering the risk of diseases.Deep Neural Network(DNN)is a novel technique that will help detect disease present on a rice leave because DNN is also considered a state-of-the-art solution in image detection using sensing nodes.Further in this paper,the adoption of the mixed-method approach Deep Convolutional Neural Network(Deep CNN)has assisted the research in increasing the effectiveness of the proposed method.Deep CNN is used for image recognition and is a class of deep-learning neural networks.CNN is popular and mostly used in the field of image recognition.A dataset of images with three main leaf diseases is selected for training and testing the proposed model.After the image acquisition and preprocessing process,the Deep CNN model was trained to detect and classify three rice diseases(Brown spot,bacterial blight,and blast disease).The proposed model achieved 98.3%accuracy in comparison with similar state-of-the-art techniques.

Towards Sustainable Agricultural Systems:A Lightweight Deep Learning Model for Plant Disease Detection

A country’s economy heavily depends on agricultural development.However,due to several plant diseases,crop growth rate and quality are highly suffered.Accurate identification of these diseases via a manual procedure is very challenging and time-consuming because of the deficiency of domain experts and low-contrast information.Therefore,the agricultural management system is searching for an automatic early disease detection technique.To this end,an efficient and lightweight Deep Learning(DL)-based framework(E-GreenNet)is proposed to overcome these problems and precisely classify the various diseases.In the end-to-end architecture,a MobileNetV3Smallmodel is utilized as a backbone that generates refined,discriminative,and prominent features.Moreover,the proposed model is trained over the PlantVillage(PV),Data Repository of Leaf Images(DRLI),and a new Plant Composite(PC)dataset individually,and later on test samples,its actual performance is evaluated.After extensive experimental analysis,the proposed model obtained 1.00%,0.96%and 0.99%accuracies on all three included datasets.Moreover,the proposed method achieves better inference speed when compared with other State-Of-The-Art(SOTA)approaches.In addition,a comparative analysis is conducted where the proposed strategy shows tremendous discriminative scores as compared to the various pretrained models and other Machine Learning(ML)and DL methods.

Lightweight Method for Plant Disease Identification Using Deep Learning

In the deep learning approach for identifying plant diseases,the high complexity of the network model,the large number of parameters,and great computational effort make it challenging to deploy the model on terminal devices with limited computational resources.In this study,a lightweight method for plant diseases identification that is an improved version of the ShuffleNetV2 model is proposed.In the proposed model,the depthwise convolution in the basic module of ShuffleNetV2 is replaced with mixed depthwise convolution to capture crop pest images with different resolutions;the efficient channel attention module is added into the ShuffleNetV2 model network structure to enhance the channel features;and the ReLU activation function is replaced with the ReLU6 activation function to prevent the gen-eration of large gradients.Experiments are conducted on the public dataset PlantVillage.The results show that the proposed model achieves an accuracy of 99.43%,which is an improvement of 0.6 percentage points compared to the ShuffleNetV2 model.Compared to lightweight network models,such as MobileNetV2,MobileNetV3,EfficientNet,and EfficientNetV2,and classical convolutional neural network models,such as ResNet34,ResNet50,and ResNet101,the proposed model has fewer parameters and higher recognition accuracy,which provides guidance for deploying crop pest identification methods on resource-constrained devices,including mobile terminals.

Problems, challenges and future of plant disease management: from an ecological point of view

Plant disease management faces ever-growing challenges due to： （i） increasing demands for total, safe and diverse foods to support the booming global population and its improving living standards; （ii） reducing production potential in agriculture due to competition for land in fertile areas and exhaustion of marginal arable lands; （iii） deteriorating ecology of agro-ecosystems and depletion of natural resources; and （iv） increased risk of disease epidemics resulting from agricultural intensification and monocultures. Future plant disease management should aim to strengthen food security for a stable society while simultaneously safeguarding the health of associated ecosystems and reducing dependency on natural resources. To achieve these multiple functionalities, sustainable plant disease management should place emphases on rational adaptation of resistance, avoidance, elimination and remediation strategies individually and collectively, guided by traits of specific host-pathogen associations using evolutionary ecology principles to create environmental （biotic and abiotic） conditions favorable for host growth and development while adverse to pathogen reproduction and evolution.

Review of Studies on Rare Earth against Plant Disease

Agricultural application of rare earth (RE) has been generalized for several decades, and it is involved in crops, vegetables and stock raising in China. However, all the researches on RE mainly focus on the fields such as plant physiological activity, physiological and biochemical mechanism, sanitation toxicology and environmental security. Plant protection by using RE and the induced resistance of plant against diseases were summarized. The mechanism of rare earth against plant disease is highlighted, which includes following two aspects. First, RE elements can control some phytopathogen directly and reduce its virulence to host plant. Another possibility is that RE elements can affect host plant and induce the plant to produce some resistance to disease.

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.

Triple bottom-line consideration of sustainable plant disease management:From economic,sociological and ecological perspectives

Plant disease management plays an important role in achieving the sustainable development goals of the United Nations(UN)such as food security,human health,socio-economic improvement,resource conservation and ecological resilience.However,technologies available are often limited due to different interests between producers and society and lacks of proper understanding of economic thresholds and the complex interactions among ecology,productivity and profitability.A comprehensive synergy and conflict evaluation of economic,sociological and ecological effects with technologies,productions and evolutionary principles as main components should be used to guide sustainable disease management that aims to mitigate crop and economic losses in the short term while maintaining functional farm ecosystem in the long term.Consequently,there should be an increased emphasis on technology development,public education and information exchange among governments,researchers,producers and consumers to broaden the options for disease management in the future.

Plant Disease Detection with Deep Learning and Feature Extraction Using Plant Village

Nowadays, crop diseases are a crucial problem to the world’s food supplies, in a world where the population count is around 7 billion people, with more than 90% not getting access to the use of tools or features that would identify and solve the problem. At present, we live in a world dominated by technology on a significant scale, major network coverage, high-end smart-phones, as long as there are great discoveries and improvements in AI. The combination of high-end smart-phones and computer vision via Deep Learning has made possible what can be defined as “smartphone-assisted disease diagnosis”. In the area of Deep Learning, multiple architecture models have been trained, some achieving performance reaching more than 99.53% [1]. In this study, we evaluate CNN’s architectures applying transfer learning and deep feature extraction. All the features obtained will also be classified by SVM and KNN. Our work is feasible by the use of the open source Plant Village Dataset. The result obtained shows that SVM is the best classifier for leaf’s diseases detection.

Optimization of Deep Learning Model for Plant Disease Detection Using Particle Swarm Optimizer

Plant diseases are a major impendence to food security,and due to a lack of key infrastructure in many regions of the world,quick identification is still challenging.Harvest losses owing to illnesses are a severe problem for both large farming structures and rural communities,motivating our mission.Because of the large range of diseases,identifying and classifying diseases with human eyes is not only time-consuming and labor intensive,but also prone to being mistaken with a high error rate.Deep learning-enabled breakthroughs in computer vision have cleared the road for smartphone-assisted plant disease and diagnosis.The proposed work describes a deep learning approach for detection plant disease.Therefore,we proposed a deep learning model strategy for detecting plant disease and classification of plant leaf diseases.In our research,we focused on detecting plant diseases in five crops divided into 25 different types of classes(wheat,cotton,grape,corn,and cucumbers).In this task,we used a public image database of healthy and diseased plant leaves acquired under realistic conditions.For our work,a deep convolutional neural model AlexNet and Particle Swarm optimization was trained for this task we found that the metrics(accuracy,specificity,Sensitivity,precision,and Fscore)of the tested deep learning networks achieves an accuracy of 98.83%,specificity of 98.56%,Sensitivity of 98.78%,precision of 98.67%,and F-score of 98.47%,demonstrating the feasibility of this approach.

Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria(PGPR)and its mechanisms against plant diseases for sustainable agriculture and better productivity

Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria(PGPR)are specialized bacterial communities inhabiting the root rhizosphere and the secretion of root exudates helps to,regulate the microbial dynamics and their interactions with the plants.These bacteria viz.,Agrobacterium,Arthobacter,Azospirillum,Bacillus,Burkholderia,Flavobacterium,Pseudomonas,Rhizobium,etc.,play important role in plant growth promotion.In addition,such symbiotic associations of PGPRs in the rhizospheric region also confer protection against several diseases caused by bacterial,fungal and viral pathogens.The biocontrol mechanism utilized by PGPR includes direct and indirect mechanisms direct PGPR mechanisms include the production of antibiotic,siderophore,and hydrolytic enzymes,competition for space and nutrients,and quorum sensing whereas,indirect mechanisms include rhizomicrobiome regulation via.secretion of root exudates,phytostimulation through the release of phytohormones viz.,auxin,cytokinin,gibberellic acid,1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate and induction of systemic resistance through expression of antioxidant defense enzymes viz.,phenylalanine ammonia lyase(PAL),peroxidase(PO),polyphenyloxidases(PPO),superoxide dismutase(SOD),chitinase andβ-glucanases.For the suppression of plant diseases potent bio inoculants can be developed by modulating the rhizomicrobiome through rhizospheric engineering.In addition,understandings of different strategies to improve PGPR strains,their competence,colonization efficiency,persistence and its future implications should also be taken into consideration.

A Computer Software-Epitimulator~ for Simulating Temporal Dynamics of Plant Disease Epidemic Progress

The objective of the present study was to develop a computer software for simulating the temporal development of plant disease epidemics using Richards, logistic, Gompertz, monomolecular, and exponential functions, respectively, and for predicting disease with a fitted model. The software was programmed using Visual Basic （VB6.0） and packaged with the Wise Installation System. The Fibonacci （＇0.618＇） section strategy was used to find out the most appropriate value for the shape parameter （m） in Richards function simulation through looping procedures. The software program was repeatedly tested, debugged and edited until it was run through favorably and produced ideal outputs. It was named Epitimulator based on the phrase ＇epidemic time simulator＇ and has been registered by the National Copyright Department of China （Reg. no. 2007SR18489）. It can be installed and run on personal computers with all versions of Windows operational systems. Data of disease index and survey time are keyed in or imported from Access files. The output of fitted models and related data of parameters can be pasted into Microsoft Excel worksheet or into Word document for editing as required and the simulated disease progress curves can be stored in separate graphic files. After being finally tested and completed, Epitimulator was applied to simulate the epidemic progress of corn northern leaf blight （Exserohilum turcicum） with recorded data from field surveys of corn crops and the fitted models were output. Comparison of the simulation results showed that the disease progress was always best described by Richards function, which resulted in the most accurate simulation model. Result also showed that forecast of northern leaf blight development was highly accurate by using the computed progress model from Richards function.

An Optimal Classification Model for Rice Plant Disease Detection

Internet of Things(IoT)paves a new direction in the domain of smart farming and precision agriculture.Smart farming is an upgraded version of agriculture which is aimed at improving the cultivation practices and yield to a certain extent.In smart farming,IoT devices are linked among one another with new technologies to improve the agricultural practices.Smart farming makes use of IoT devices and contributes in effective decision making.Rice is the major food source in most of the countries.So,it becomes inevitable to detect rice plant diseases during early stages with the help of automated tools and IoT devices.The development and application of Deep Learning(DL)models in agriculture offers a way for early detection of rice diseases and increase the yield and profit.This study presents a new Convolutional Neural Network-based inception with ResNset v2 model and Optimal Weighted Extreme Learning Machine(CNNIR-OWELM)-based rice plant disease diagnosis and classification model in smart farming environment.The proposed CNNIR-OWELM method involves a set of IoT devices which capture the images of rice plants and transmit it to cloud server via internet.The CNNIROWELM method uses histogram segmentation technique to determine the affected regions in rice plant image.In addition,a DL-based inception with ResNet v2 model is engaged to extract the features.Besides,in OWELM,the Weighted Extreme Learning Machine(WELM),optimized by Flower Pollination Algorithm(FPA),is employed for classification purpose.The FPA is incorporated into WELM to determine the optimal parameters such as regularization coefficient C and kernelγ.The outcome of the presented model was validated against a benchmark image dataset and the results were compared with one another.The simulation results inferred that the presented model effectively diagnosed the disease with high sensitivity of 0.905,specificity of 0.961,and accuracy of 0.942.

RDA- CNN: Enhanced Super Resolution Method for Rice Plant Disease Classification

In thefield of agriculture,the development of an early warning diagnostic system is essential for timely detection and accurate diagnosis of diseases in rice plants.This research focuses on identifying the plant diseases and detecting them promptly through the advancements in thefield of computer vision.The images obtained from in-field farms are typically with less visual information.However,there is a significant impact on the classification accuracy in the disease diagnosis due to the lack of high-resolution crop images.We propose a novel Reconstructed Disease Aware–Convolutional Neural Network(RDA-CNN),inspired by recent CNN architectures,that integrates image super resolution and classification into a single model for rice plant disease classification.This network takes low-resolution images of rice crops as input and employs the super resolution layers to transform low-resolution images to super-resolution images to recover appearance such as spots,rot,and lesion on different parts of the rice plants.Extensive experimental results indicated that the proposed RDA-CNN method performs well under diverse aspects generating visually pleasing images and outperforms better than other con-ventional Super Resolution(SR)methods.Furthermore,these super-resolution images are subsequently passed through deep classification layers for disease classi-fication.The results demonstrate that the RDA-CNN significantly boosts the clas-sification performance by nearly 4–6%compared with the baseline architectures.

Advances in Measures of Reducing Chemical Pesticides to Control Plant Diseases

In order to provide the technological support for further implementing measures of reducing chemical pesticide to control plant diseases,the research progress on non-chemical pesticide measures to control plant diseases are reviewed from the aspects of agricultural control,botanical pesticide control and microbial pesticide control,and the development prospects are proposed,including accelerating innovative research on botani-cal pesticide control such as Chinese herb extracts,and screening microbial pesticides from valuable bio-control bacteria or plant endophyte metabolites for commercial production and utilization.

Persistence and Extinction of a Non-Autonomous Plant Disease Model with Roguing^*

On the basis of analyzing the shortages of present studies on plant disease model for autonomous phenomenon, and considering the actual situation, this paper applies the joint factors of environmental change and the infectivity for latent plants into the system;therefore we deal with a non-autonomous plant disease model with roguing. Some sufficient conditions are established for extinction of diseases and permanence of the system in this paper.

Enhanced Disease Identification Model for Tea Plant Using Deep Learning

Tea plant cultivation plays a significant role in the Indian economy.The Tea board of India supports tea farmers to increase tea production by preventing various diseases in Tea Plant.Various climatic factors and other parameters cause these diseases.In this paper,the image retrieval model is developed to identify whether the given input tea leaf image has a disease or is healthy.Automation in image retrieval is a hot topic in the industry as it doesn’t require any form of metadata related to the images for storing or retrieval.Deep Hashing with Integrated Autoencoders is our proposed method for image retrieval in Tea Leaf images.It is an efficient andflexible way of retrieving Tea Leaf images.It has an integrated autoencoder which makes it better than the state-of-the-art methods giving better results for the MAP(mean average precision)scores,which is used as a parameter to judge the efficiency of the model.The autoencoders used with skip connections increase the weightage of the prominent features present in the previous tensor.This constitutes a hybrid model for hashing and retrieving images from a tea leaf data set.The proposed model will examine the input tea leaf image and identify the type of tea leaf disease.The relevant image will be retrieved based on the resulting type of disease.This model is only trained on scarce data as a real-life scenario,making it practical for many applications.

A review of imaging techniques for plant disease detection

Agriculture is the basis of every economy worldwide.Crop production is one of the major factors affecting domestic market condition in any country.Agricultural production is also a major prerequisite of economic development,be it any part of any country.It plays a crucial role as it even provides raw material,employment and food to different citizens.A lot of issues are responsible for estimated crop production varying in different parts of the world.Some of these include overutilization of chemical fertilizers,presence of chemicals in water supply,uneven distribution of rainfall,different soil fertility and others.Other than these issues one of the commonly faced challenges across the globe equally includes destruction of themajor part of production due to diseases.After providing effective resources to the fields,major section of the production is diminished by the presence of diseases in the plants grown.This leads to focus on effective ways of detection of disease in plants.Presence of various diseases in plant is a major concern among farmers.Plant diseases acts as a major threat to small scale farmers as they lead tomajor destruction in overall food supply.To provide effectivemeasures for detection and avoidance of the destruction requires an early identification of type of plant disease present.In recent timemajorwork is being done for the identification of plant disease presents in varied parts of theworld affection varied crops.Majorwork is being done in the domain of identification of causing factors of these diseases.Someof the diseases are marked by the presence of viruses while some are resultant of fungal infection.This becomes a major issuewhen the causing factor is not traceable before it has already spread to major production section.This paper brings a review on effective use of different imaging techniques and computer vision approaches for the identification and classification of plant diseases.Detection of Plant disease is initiated with image acquisition followed by pre-processingwhile using the process of segmentation.It is further accompanied by different techniques used for feature extraction alongwith classification.In this Paper we present the Current Trends and Challenges for detection of plant disease using computer vision and advance imaging technique.

A quantitative evaluation of the biochar’s influence on plant disease suppress:a global meta-analysis

Numerous studies have demonstrated that soil applications of biochar contribute to plant disease suppression and growth promotion.Here,we quantitatively evaluated the performance of biochars on plant disease suppression and production using meta-analysis of literature data.The results indicated that biochar amendment dramatically reduced disease severity(DS)by 47.46%while increasing plant biomass by 44.05%.The highest disease suppression was achieved with soil application of straw-derived biochar compared to biochar from other feedstocks,while no significant increase in yield was found with straw-derived biochar.Biochars pyrolyzed at medium temperatures(350-600℃)facilitate both disease controlling and growth promotion.Soil application of biochars between 3 and 5%significantly decreased plant DS by 59.11%,and inverted U-shaped biochar dose/DS suppression curve and biochar dose/growth curve were observed.In cash crop fields,the DS of plants amended with biochar was reduced over 50%,which was significantly higher than that of grain crops and perennial trees.Furthermore,biochar performance on plant disease suppression was higher for airborne pathogens than for soilborne pathogens,possibly due to the systemic activation of plant defences by biochar amendment.Additionally,a reduction of DS by biochar was observed on plants grown in agricultural soils.Our work contributes to the standardization of biochar production and provides a reference for improving the function of biochar in disease control.

Plant disease detection using hybrid model based on convolutional autoencoder and convolutional neural network

Plants are susceptive to various diseases in their growing phases.Early detection of diseases in plants is one of the most challenging problems in agriculture.If the diseases are not identified in the early stages,then theymay adversely affect the total yield,resulting in a decrease in the farmers'profits.To overcome this problem,many researchers have presented different state-of-the-art systems based on Deep Learning and Machine Learning approaches.However,most of these systems either use millions of training parameters or have lowclassification accuracies.This paper proposes a novel hybrid model based on Convolutional Autoencoder(CAE)network and Convolutional Neural Network(CNN)for automatic plant disease detection.To the best of our knowledge,a hybrid system based on CAE and CNN to detect plant diseases automatically has not been proposed in any state-ofthe-art systems present in the literature.In this work,the proposed hybrid model is applied to detect Bacterial Spot disease present in peach plants using their leaf images,however,it can be used for any plant disease detection.The experiments performed in this paper use a publicly available dataset named PlantVillage to get the leaf images of peach plants.The proposed system achieves 99.35%training accuracy and 98.38%testing accuracy using only 9,914 training parameters.The proposed hybrid model requires lesser number of training parameters as compared to other approaches existing in the literature.This,in turn,significantly decreases the time required to train the model for automatic plant disease detection and the time required to identify the disease in plants using the trained model.

Deep Learning-Based Trees Disease Recognition and Classification Using Hyperspectral Data

Crop diseases have a significant impact on plant growth and can lead to reduced yields.Traditional methods of disease detection rely on the expertise of plant protection experts,which can be subjective and dependent on individual experience and knowledge.To address this,the use of digital image recognition technology and deep learning algorithms has emerged as a promising approach for automating plant disease identification.In this paper,we propose a novel approach that utilizes a convolutional neural network(CNN)model in conjunction with Inception v3 to identify plant leaf diseases.The research focuses on developing a mobile application that leverages this mechanism to identify diseases in plants and provide recommendations for overcoming specific diseases.The models were trained using a dataset consisting of 80,848 images representing 21 different plant leaves categorized into 60 distinct classes.Through rigorous training and evaluation,the proposed system achieved an impressive accuracy rate of 99%.This mobile application serves as a convenient and valuable advisory tool,providing early detection and guidance in real agricultural environments.The significance of this research lies in its potential to revolutionize plant disease detection and management practices.By automating the identification process through deep learning algorithms,the proposed system eliminates the subjective nature of expert-based diagnosis and reduces dependence on individual expertise.The integration of mobile technology further enhances accessibility and enables farmers and agricultural practitioners to swiftly and accurately identify diseases in their crops.