Classification of Diseased Leaves in Plants Using Convolutional Neural Networks

The article focuses on the classification of diseased leaves using a machine learning algorithm. The main focus in agriculture is controlling pests and weeds, for which farmers spray chemical pesticides to get a good yield. The issue here is over-usage and under-usage of pesticides, which might harm the end consumer. To achieve the goal of reducing pesticide use and detecting pests in the crop early, the machine learning algorithm is deployed on the leaf image. The image data of the leaf of the cauliflower plant is collected for 40 days. The data was collected from the day the plant was seeded in a pot until the day it was ready to be planted in the soil. From this data, the pest attack on the plants is tracked without the application of pesticides. To achieve this, the CNN algorithm is used on the collected image data. The outcome of the study would be to classify the diseased leaves based on the pest attack and know the right time to spray the pesticides to reduce the damage to the plant. This also reduces the use of pesticides and costs to the farmer.