Plant disease identification using autoencoder

Plant diseases limit the crop production and have received more attention from experts and farmers. Plant disease identification is carried out by experienced people or needs microscopic identification. However, trained people or professionals are not always available, and the manual approach may le...

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Main Author: Ong, Janice Aun Nee
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Language:English
Published: 2021
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spelling my-utm-ep.994412023-02-27T04:39:56Z Plant disease identification using autoencoder 2021 Ong, Janice Aun Nee TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering Plant diseases limit the crop production and have received more attention from experts and farmers. Plant disease identification is carried out by experienced people or needs microscopic identification. However, trained people or professionals are not always available, and the manual approach may lead to bias or errors, costly and time-consuming, especially when some of plant disease symptoms are similar. It has also not easily been understood and identified that attacking crop could be due to parasitic organisms like fungus or bacteria besides the insect. To reduce the damage on the crops, plant disease early detection should be carried out in an automated way for early detection, prevention and control. Many methods have been proposed to do automated detection, but it is not easy to target which feature is the best for the classification. Thus, the objective of this project is to develop an automatic feature extraction method in identifying the severity of two types of plant diseases, namely early blight and late blight, which are caused by microorganism attacks. The main classifier module will be governed by autoencoders as an automatic feature extraction to identify the plant diseases. The MATLAB software was used to develop the autoencoder module. With the data set ready from Plant Village leaf images, this project identified two plant diseases into three severity levels, low, mild and severe at 72.7% accuracy. 2021 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/99441/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/99441/1/JaniceOngAunNeeMKE2021.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:149764 masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Faculty of Engineering - School of Electrical Engineering
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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topic TK Electrical engineering
Electronics Nuclear engineering
spellingShingle TK Electrical engineering
Electronics Nuclear engineering
Ong, Janice Aun Nee
Plant disease identification using autoencoder
description Plant diseases limit the crop production and have received more attention from experts and farmers. Plant disease identification is carried out by experienced people or needs microscopic identification. However, trained people or professionals are not always available, and the manual approach may lead to bias or errors, costly and time-consuming, especially when some of plant disease symptoms are similar. It has also not easily been understood and identified that attacking crop could be due to parasitic organisms like fungus or bacteria besides the insect. To reduce the damage on the crops, plant disease early detection should be carried out in an automated way for early detection, prevention and control. Many methods have been proposed to do automated detection, but it is not easy to target which feature is the best for the classification. Thus, the objective of this project is to develop an automatic feature extraction method in identifying the severity of two types of plant diseases, namely early blight and late blight, which are caused by microorganism attacks. The main classifier module will be governed by autoencoders as an automatic feature extraction to identify the plant diseases. The MATLAB software was used to develop the autoencoder module. With the data set ready from Plant Village leaf images, this project identified two plant diseases into three severity levels, low, mild and severe at 72.7% accuracy.
format Thesis
qualification_level Master's degree
author Ong, Janice Aun Nee
author_facet Ong, Janice Aun Nee
author_sort Ong, Janice Aun Nee
title Plant disease identification using autoencoder
title_short Plant disease identification using autoencoder
title_full Plant disease identification using autoencoder
title_fullStr Plant disease identification using autoencoder
title_full_unstemmed Plant disease identification using autoencoder
title_sort plant disease identification using autoencoder
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
granting_department Faculty of Engineering - School of Electrical Engineering
publishDate 2021
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/99441/1/JaniceOngAunNeeMKE2021.pdf
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