Adaptive computer vision based k means clustering and fuzzy pyramid support feature model for accurate classification of wheat rust disease
摘要
Wheat rust diseases are caused by the Puccinia fungus pathogen and are one of the most common threats in wheat production. The rust diseases encompass stem, stripe, and leaf rust variants, each posing a significant threat to both yield quality and grain quantity. The rust diseases are identified by farmers who have no experience, which leads to incorrect identification, resulting in significant losses.
ObjectiveThe rust diseases are identified by farmers with no experience leads to incorrect identification. A computer vision-based automatic system (CVBA) is important for rust disease identification.
MethodThis paper proposes a computer vision-based novel model, namely as Adaptive Simple K-means Clustering and Fuzzy-based Pyramid Support Feature model (ASK-FPS), consisting of two phases. Firstly, the local gradient ratio pattern of each pixel in the wheat leaf image is extracted as a feature. Then superpixel is generated using Adaptive superpixel linear iterative clustering (ASLIC) and k-means clustering. In second phase, the pyramid of the histogram of oriented gradient (PHOG) features extracts the superpixel features that are reduced by Principal component analysis (PCA), and Analysis of variance (ANOVA), which is further applied to the fuzzy support vector machine (FSVM) model.
Results and conclusionThe proposed model selects cumulative variance preservation (95%), reducing the feature space to 10 principal components and achieves a maximum accuracy of 98.89%, precision of 96.49%, recall of 95.59%, F1-score of 95.74%, specificity of 98.42% and Matthew’s coefficient of 0.952 with FSVM classifier. The automated ASK-FPS model helps to identify healthy and rust leaves, including healthy, stem, stripe, and leaf rust diseases, accurately.