An Approach for Classification of Diseases on Leaves

Abstract

In recent years, significant advancements have been made in the realm of plant disease classification, with a particular focus on leveraging the capabilities of deep learning techniques. This study delves into the utilization of renowned Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models, including EfficientNetB5, Mo-bileNet, ResNet50, InceptionV3, and VGG16, for the purpose of plant disease classification. The core methodology involves employing transfer learning, wherein these established CNN models are employed as a foundation and subsequently finetuned using a publicly accessible plant disease dataset. The study also compared the results with some deep learning models and with state-of-the-art. Among the tested CNNs, EfficientNetB5 has shown the best performance. EfficientNetB5 has outperformed another model and obtained 99.2% classification accuracy.