Real-time detection of maize crop disease via a deep learning-based smartphone app

Blake Richey; Sharmin Majumder; Mukul Shirvaikar; Nasser Kehtarnavaz

doi:10.1117/12.2557317

22 April 2020 Real-time detection of maize crop disease via a deep learning-based smartphone app

Blake Richey, Sharmin Majumder, Mukul Shirvaikar, Nasser Kehtarnavaz

Proceedings Volume 11401, Real-Time Image Processing and Deep Learning 2020; 114010A (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2557317
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Abstract

Diseases in plants are substantially problematic for agricultural yield management. Compounded with insufficient information to correctly diagnose crops, they can lead to significant economic loss and yield inefficiencies. Due to the success of deep learning in many image processing applications, the first part of this paper involves designing a deep neural network for the detection of disease in maize due to its economic significance. A convolutional neural network is designed and trained on a public domain dataset with labeled images of maize plant leaves with disease present, or lack thereof. In the second part of this paper, the trained convolutional neural network is turned into a smartphone app running in real-time for the purpose of performing maize crop disease detection in the field in an on-the-fly manner. The smartphone app offers a cost-effective, portable, and universally accessible way to detect disease in maize. The approach developed in this paper enables recognizing early signs of plant pathogens from maize crop images in realtime in the field, thus leading to preemptive corrective actions prior to significant yield loss. Keywords: Artificial Intelligence in agriculture, real-time detection of crop disease, smartphone

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Blake Richey, Sharmin Majumder, Mukul Shirvaikar, and Nasser Kehtarnavaz "Real-time detection of maize crop disease via a deep learning-based smartphone app", Proc. SPIE 11401, Real-Time Image Processing and Deep Learning 2020, 114010A (22 April 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2557317

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