Harnessing Deep Learning for Efficient Rice Disease Detection with CNN and Advanced Transfer Learning Techniques
摘要
Rice plant diseases significantly impact agricultural productivity, making automated detection essential for effective crop management. This study explores deep learning-based approaches for rice disease classification using two publicly available Kaggle datasets. A comparative analysis is conducted between a custom CNN model and three transfer learning architectures: VGG16, ResNet50, and InceptionV3. Preprocessing and data augmentation techniques are applied to improve model generalization. Models are evaluated using classification accuracy, with InceptionV3 achieving the highest testing accuracy of 100% on Dataset 2 and 90.72% on Dataset 1. The custom CNN achieved 99.41 and 85.03%, while VGG16 followed with 99.3 and 81.81%. ResNet50 underperformed, with 62.44 and 40.72% accuracy. Despite promising results, challenges such as dataset limitations and the need for real-time implementation remain. Future work could focus on improving model robustness through additional training data, hyperparameter tuning, and deploying the models in real-world agricultural settings.