Optimizing Crop Health: Evaluating CNN Performance in Plant Disease Detection
摘要
Plant diseases represent a significant challenge in agriculture, significantly impacting crop yield. Addressing this issue is imperative to ensure agricultural productivity. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have emerged as a promising solution for image-based disease detection. Detecting diseases in their early stages using CNN models can potentially enhance crop yield for farmers. Given the multi-class nature of most plant diseases, we conducted a comprehensive comparative study of CNNs to assess their effectiveness. Our study compared three CNN models: AlexNet, VGG-19, and ResNet18. ResNet18 demonstrated superior performance, achieving a validation accuracy of 95.68%. Furthermore, we developed a web application to enable farmers to utilize the trained model effectively.