A Robust and Light-Weight Transfer Learning-Based Architecture for Accurate Detection of Leaf Diseases Across Multiple Plants using Less Amount of Images
Leaf diseases are a global threat to crop production and food preservation. Detecting these diseases is crucial for effective management. We introduce LeafDoc-Net, a robust, lightweight transfer-learning architecture for accurately detecting leaf diseases across multiple plant species, even with limited image data. Our approach concatenates two pre-trained image classification deep learning-based models, DenseNet121 and MobileNetV2. We enhance DenseNet121 with an attention-based transition mechanism and global average pooling layers, while MobileNetV2 benefits from adding an attention module and global average pooling layers. We deepen the architecture with extra-dense layers featuring swish activation and batch normalization layers, resulting in a more robust and accurate model for diagnosing leaf-related plant diseases. LeafDoc-Net is evaluated on two distinct datasets, focused on cassava and …
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Leaf diseases are a global threat to crop production and food preservation. Detecting these diseases is crucial for effective management. We introduce LeafDoc-Net, a robust, lightweight transfer-…