Machine Learning for Apple Fruit Diseases Classification System

Abstract

There are a growing demand and an urgent need for fruits due to the increase in the world population. Fruit diseases cause a devastating problem in production losses worldwide. The healthy recognition of fruits and apples is an important issue for the economic and agricultural fields. In this paper, a recognition system for apple fruit diseases detection is proposed and experimentally validated. The K-Means based segmentation technique is applied. In regards to performance enhancement, different features extraction techniques are applied and classified using Support Vector Machine, K-NN, Multi-Class Support Vector Machine, and Multi-Label KNN (ML-KNN). The proposed model can significantly support accurate detection and automatic classification of apple fruit diseases. The average accuracy of diseases classification is achieved up to 97.5% and up to 99% for apple health classification.