Uzair Aslam Bhatti^1,*, Sibghat Ullah Bazai², Shumaila Hussain¹, Shariqa Fakhar³, Chin Soon Ku^4,*, Shah Marjan⁵, Por Lip Yee⁶, Liu Jing¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.1, pp. 681-697, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.037958

Abstract Crop diseases have a significant impact on plant growth and can lead to reduced yields. Traditional methods of disease detection rely on the expertise of plant protection experts, which can be subjective and dependent on individual experience and knowledge. To address this, the use of digital image recognition technology and deep learning algorithms has emerged as a promising approach for automating plant disease identification. In this paper, we propose a novel approach that utilizes a convolutional neural network (CNN) model in conjunction with Inception v3 to identify plant leaf diseases. The research focuses on developing a mobile application that leverages… More >

Fawad Ali Shah¹, Habib Akbar¹, Abid Ali^2,3, Parveen Amna⁴, Maha Aljohani⁵, Eman A. Aldhahri⁶, Harun Jamil^7,*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.47, No.2, pp. 1385-1413, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.036144

Abstract The detection of rice leaf disease is significant because, as an agricultural and rice exporter country, Pakistan needs to advance in production and lower the risk of diseases. In this rapid globalization era, information technology has increased. A sensing system is mandatory to detect rice diseases using Artificial Intelligence (AI). It is being adopted in all medical and plant sciences fields to access and measure the accuracy of results and detection while lowering the risk of diseases. Deep Neural Network (DNN) is a novel technique that will help detect disease present on a rice leave because DNN is also considered… More >

Shah Faisal¹, Kashif Javed¹, Sara Ali¹, Areej Alasiry², Mehrez Marzougui², Muhammad Attique Khan^3,*, Jae-Hyuk Cha^4,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.76, No.1, pp. 895-914, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.039781

Abstract Citrus fruit crops are among the world’s most important agricultural products, but pests and diseases impact their cultivation, resulting in yield and quality losses. Computer vision and machine learning have been widely used to detect and classify plant diseases over the last decade, allowing for early disease detection and improving agricultural production. This paper presented an automatic system for the early detection and classification of citrus plant diseases based on a deep learning (DL) model, which improved accuracy while decreasing computational complexity. The most recent transfer learning-based models were applied to the Citrus Plant Dataset to improve classification accuracy. Using… More >

Sana Parez¹, Naqqash Dilshad², Turki M. Alanazi³, Jong Weon Lee^1,*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.47, No.1, pp. 515-536, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.037992

Abstract A country’s economy heavily depends on agricultural development. However, due to several plant diseases, crop growth rate and quality are highly suffered. Accurate identification of these diseases via a manual procedure is very challenging and time-consuming because of the deficiency of domain experts and low-contrast information. Therefore, the agricultural management system is searching for an automatic early disease detection technique. To this end, an efficient and lightweight Deep Learning (DL)-based framework (E-GreenNet) is proposed to overcome these problems and precisely classify the various diseases. In the end-to-end architecture, a MobileNetV3Small model is utilized as a backbone that generates refined, discriminative,… More >

Jianbo Lu^1,2,*, Ruxin Shi², Jin Tong³, Wenqi Cheng⁴, Xiaoya Ma^1,3, Xiaobin Liu²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.37, No.1, pp. 525-544, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.038287

Abstract In the deep learning approach for identifying plant diseases, the high complexity of the network model, the large number of parameters, and great computational effort make it challenging to deploy the model on terminal devices with limited computational resources. In this study, a lightweight method for plant diseases identification that is an improved version of the ShuffleNetV2 model is proposed. In the proposed model, the depthwise convolution in the basic module of ShuffleNetV2 is replaced with mixed depthwise convolution to capture crop pest images with different resolutions; the efficient channel attention module is added into the ShuffleNetV2 model network structure… More >

N. Vasudevan^*, T. Karthick

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.1, pp. 337-356, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.034242

Abstract Crop protection is a great obstacle to food safety, with crop diseases being one of the most serious issues. Plant diseases diminish the quality of crop yield. To detect disease spots on grape leaves, deep learning technology might be employed. On the other hand, the precision and efficiency of identification remain issues. The quantity of images of ill leaves taken from plants is often uneven. With an uneven collection and few images, spotting disease is hard. The plant leaves dataset needs to be expanded to detect illness accurately. A novel hybrid technique employing segmentation, augmentation, and a capsule neural network… More >

S. Poornima^1,*, N. Sripriya¹, Adel Fahad Alrasheedi², S. S. Askar², Mohamed Abouhawwash^3,4

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.36, No.2, pp. 2393-2409, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.024820

Abstract Plant diseases prediction is the essential technique to prevent the yield loss and gain high production of agricultural products. The monitoring of plant health continuously and detecting the diseases is a significant for sustainable agriculture. Manual system to monitor the diseases in plant is time consuming and report a lot of errors. There is high demand for technology to detect the plant diseases automatically. Recently image processing approach and deep learning approach are highly invited in detection of plant diseases. The diseases like late blight, bacterial spots, spots on Septoria leaf and yellow leaf curved are widely found in plants.… More >

R. S. Sandhya Devi^1,*, V. R. Vijay Kumar², P. Sivakumar³

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.45, No.2, pp. 2249-2263, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.032231

Abstract Plant disease classification and prevention of spreading of the disease at earlier stages based on visual leaves symptoms and Pest recognition through deep learning-based image classification is in the forefront of research. To perform the investigation on Plant and pest classification, Transfer Learning (TL) approach is used on EfficientNet-V2. TL requires limited labelled data and shorter training time. However, the limitation of TL is the pre-trained model network’s topology is static and the knowledge acquired is detrimentally overwriting the old parameters. EfficientNet-V2 is a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model with significant high speed learning rates across variable sized datasets. The… More >

Santhana Krishnan Jayapal¹, Sivakumar Poruran^2,*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.35, No.1, pp. 1261-1275, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.026564

Abstract Tea plant cultivation plays a significant role in the Indian economy. The Tea board of India supports tea farmers to increase tea production by preventing various diseases in Tea Plant. Various climatic factors and other parameters cause these diseases. In this paper, the image retrieval model is developed to identify whether the given input tea leaf image has a disease or is healthy. Automation in image retrieval is a hot topic in the industry as it doesn’t require any form of metadata related to the images for storing or retrieval. Deep Hashing with Integrated Autoencoders is our proposed method for… More >

PRANAB DUTTA^1,*, GOMATHY MUTHUKRISHNAN^2,*, SABARINATHAN KUTALINGAM GOPALASUBRAMAIAM², RAJAKUMAR DHARMARAJ², ANANTHI KARUPPAIAH³, KARTHIBA LOGANATHAN⁴, KALAISELVI PERIYASAMY⁵, M. ARUMUGAM PILLAI², GK UPAMANYA⁶, SARODEE BORUAH⁷, LIPA DEB¹, ARTI KUMARI¹, MADHUSMITA MAHANTA¹, PUNABATI HEISNAM⁸, AK MISHRA⁹

BIOCELL, Vol.46, No.8, pp. 1843-1859, 2022, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2022.019291

Abstract

Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) are specialized bacterial communities inhabiting the root rhizosphere and the secretion of root exudates helps to, regulate the microbial dynamics and their interactions with the plants. These bacteria viz., Agrobacterium, Arthobacter, Azospirillum, Bacillus, Burkholderia, Flavobacterium, Pseudomonas, Rhizobium, etc., play important role in plant growth promotion. In addition, such symbiotic associations of PGPRs in the rhizospheric region also confer protection against several diseases caused by bacterial, fungal and viral pathogens. The biocontrol mechanism utilized by PGPR includes direct and indirect mechanisms direct PGPR mechanisms include the production of antibiotic, siderophore, and hydrolytic enzymes, competition for space and… More >