Plant Leaf Disease Detection using Deep Learning

Abstract

Rapid human population growth requires corresponding increase in food production. Easily spreadable diseases can have a strong negative impact on leaf yields and even destroy whole crops. That is why early disease diagnosis and prevention are of very high importance. Traditional methods rely on lab analysis and human expertise which are usually expensive and unavailable in a large part of the undeveloped world. Since smartphones are becoming increasingly present even in the most rural areas, in recent years scientists have turned to automated image analysis as a way of identifying crop diseases.