Rice Leaf Disease Detection Using Convolutional Neural Network

Abstract

In the agriculture sector, the rice crops getting diseased has become a significant concern recently, especially in India, where rice is one of the primary meals. Precise and early-stage detection of various diseases observed in the rice crops can help farmers to provide proper treatment to the crops. This paper presents a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based approach is used to detect rice plant leaf disease. CNN is one of the deep learning algorithms that help in image processing and classification with significant accuracy. The proposed algorithm is used for an image dataset of the diseased rice plant leaves, available on Kaggle. Two types of rice leaf diseases are considered for the analysis: brown spot and bacterial leaf blight. The images of these two diseases were pre-processed, segmented, and classified to identify the caused disease. The proposed model can also be used for the detection of the diseases present in other types of crops, faces recognition system, classifying animals, and car models. The overall accuracy of the developed model is nearly 67%.