Title
Automatic Image-Based Plant Disease Severity Estimation Using Deep Learning
Abstract
AbstractAutomatic and accurate estimation of disease severity is essential for food security, disease management, and yield loss prediction. Deep learning, the latest breakthrough in computer vision, is promising for fine-grained disease severity classification, as the method avoids the labor-intensive feature engineering and threshold-based segmentation. Using the apple black rot images in the PlantVillage dataset, which are further annotated by botanists with four severity stages as ground truth, a series of deep convolutional neural networks are trained to diagnose the severity of the disease. The performances of shallow networks trained from scratch and deep models fine-tuned by transfer learning are evaluated systemically in this paper. The best model is the deep VGG16 model trained with transfer learning, which yields an overall accuracy of 90.4% on the hold-out test set. The proposed deep learning model may have great potential in disease control for modern agriculture.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1155/2017/2917536
Periodicals
Field
DocType
Volume
Disease,Pattern recognition,Segmentation,Convolutional neural network,Computer science,Transfer of learning,Feature engineering,Ground truth,Artificial intelligence,Deep learning,Machine learning,Test set
Journal
2017
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1687-5265
12
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.77
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Guan Wang1212.44
Yu Sun2223.15
Jianxin Wang3131.14