Real-time plant health assessment via implementing cloud-based scalable transfer learning on AWS DeepLens

Abstract

The control of plant leaf diseases is crucial as it affects the quality and production of plant species with an effect on the economy of any country. Automated identification and classification of plant leaf diseases is, therefore, essential for the reduction of economic losses and the conservation of specific species. Various Machine Learning (ML) models have previously been proposed to detect and identify plant leaf disease; however, they lack usability due to hardware sophistication, limited scalability and realistic use inefficiency. By implementing automatic detection and classification of leaf diseases in fruit trees (apple, grape, peach and strawberry) and vegetable plants (potato and tomato) through scalable transfer learning on Amazon Web Services (AWS) SageMaker and importing it into AWS DeepLens for real-time functional usability, our proposed DeepLens Classification and Detection Model (DCDM) addresses such limitations. Scalability and ubiquitous access to our approach is provided by cloud integration. Our experiments on an extensive image data set of healthy and unhealthy fruit trees and vegetable plant leaves showed 98.78% accuracy with a real-time diagnosis of diseases of plant leaves. To train DCDM deep learning model, we used forty thousand images and then evaluated it on ten thousand images. It takes an average of 0.349s to test an image for disease diagnosis and classification using AWS DeepLens, providing the consumer with disease information in less than a second.

Plant phenotyping relevance

植物葉の病害状態を画像から自動推定する深層学習・クラウド実装を開発・評価しており、植物フェノタイピング手法が中心です。

Code and data availability

The paper's Data Availability statement explicitly links a public Kaggle plant-disease image dataset used for training/testing and an authors' GitHub code repository. The TensorFlow plant_village catalog URL is a generic mirror of the same public dataset rather than a paper-specific deposit.