Detection of crop diseases using enhanced variability imagery data and convolutional neural networks

Abstract

The timely detection of crop diseases is critical for securing crop productivity, lowering production costs, and minimizing agrochemical use. This study presents a crop disease identification method that is based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) trained on images taken with consumer-grade cameras. Specifically, this study addresses the early detection of wheat yellow rust, stem rust, powdery mildew, potato late blight, and wild barley net blotch. To facilitate this, pictures were taken in situ without modifying the scene, the background, or controlling the illumination. Each image was then split into several patches, thus retaining the original spatial resolution of the image while allowing for data variability. The resulting dataset was highly diverse since the disease manifestation, imaging geometry, and illumination varied from patch to patch. This diverse dataset was used to train various CNN architectures to find the best match. The resulting classification accuracy was 95.4 ± 0.4%. These promising results lay the groundwork for autonomous early detection of plant diseases. Guidelines for implementing this approach in realistic conditions are also discussed.

Plant phenotyping relevance

植物画像から病害状態をCNNで推定する画像ベース手法を開発・評価しており、病害識別精度も検証しているため、植物フェノタイピング手法が研究の中心である。

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