International Journal of Academic Engineering Research (IJAER)
  Year: 2018 | Volume: 2 | Issue: 12 | Page No.: 10-16
Image-Based Tomato Leaves Diseases Detection Using Deep Learning
Belal A. M. Ashqar, Samy S. Abu-Naser

Abstract:
Crop diseases are a key danger for food security, but their speedy identification still difficult in many portions of the world because of the lack of the essential infrastructure. The mixture of increasing worldwide smartphone dispersion and current advances in computer vision made conceivable by deep learning has cemented the way for smartphone-assisted disease identification. Using a public dataset of 9000 images of infected and healthy Tomato leaves collected under controlled conditions, we trained a deep convolutional neural network to identify 5 diseases. The trained model achieved an accuracy of 99.84% on a held-out test set, demonstrating the feasibility of this approach. Overall, the approach of training deep learning models on increasingly large and publicly available image datasets presents a clear path toward smartphone-assisted crop disease diagnosis on a massive global scale.