Monitoring tomato leaf disease through convolutional neural networks

Agriculture plays an essential role in Mexico’s economy. The agricultural sector has a 2.5% share of Mexico’s gross domestic product. Specifically, tomatoes have become the country’s most exported agricultural product. That is why there is an increasing need to improve crop yields. One of the elemen...

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Autores: Guerrero Ibañez, Juan Antonio, Reyes Muñoz, María Angélica|||0000-0002-8284-9934
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/381006
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/381006
https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/electronics12010229
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Machine learning
Convolutional neural networks
Deep learning
Disease classification
Generative adversarial network
Tomato leaf
Aprenentatge profund
Xarxes de sensors
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació
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Resumo:Agriculture plays an essential role in Mexico’s economy. The agricultural sector has a 2.5% share of Mexico’s gross domestic product. Specifically, tomatoes have become the country’s most exported agricultural product. That is why there is an increasing need to improve crop yields. One of the elements that can considerably affect crop productivity is diseases caused by agents such as bacteria, fungi, and viruses. However, the process of disease identification can be costly and, in many cases, time-consuming. Deep learning techniques have begun to be applied in the process of plant disease identification with promising results. In this paper, we propose a model based on convolutional neural networks to identify and classify tomato leaf diseases using a public dataset and complementing it with other photographs taken in the fields of the country. To avoid overfitting, generative adversarial networks were used to generate samples with the same characteristics as the training data. The results show that the proposed model achieves a high performance in the process of detection and classification of diseases in tomato leaves: the accuracy achieved is greater than 99% in both the training dataset and the test dataset.