Data Augmentation Techniques on Chilly Plants to Classify Healthy and Bacterial Blight Disease Leaves

Abstract

Designing an automation system for the agriculture sector is difficult using machine learning approach. So many researchers proposed deep learning system which requires huge amount of data for training the system. The proposed system suggests that geometric transformations on the original dataset help the system to generate more images that can replicate the physical circumstances. This process is known as “Image Augmentation”. This enhancement of data helps the system to produce more accurate systems in terms of all metrics. In olden days when researchers work with machine learning techniques they used to implement traditional approaches which are a time consuming and expensive process. In deep learning, most of the operations are automatically taken care by the system. So, the proposed system applies neural style and to classify the images it uses the concept of transfer learning. The system utilizes the images available in the open source repository known as “Kaggle”, this majorly consists of images related to chilly, tomato and potato. But this system majorly focuses on chilly plants because it is most productive plant in the South Indian regions. Image augmentation creates new images in different scenarios using the existing images and by applying popular deep learning techniques. The model has chosen ResNet-50, which is a pre-trained model for transfer learning. The advantage of using pre-trained model lies in not to develop the model from scratch. This pre-trained model gives more accuracy with less number of epochs. The model has achieved an accuracy of “100%”