Android application for detection of leaf disease (Using Image processing and Neural networks)

Android application for detection of leaf disease
(Using Image processing and Neural networks)
Arpit Khedekar1, Samrudhi Shetty2, Saloni Patil3 , Anik Patel4,
, Prof.Sachin Chavan5
1,2,3,4Student at Mahatma Gandhi Mission’s College Of Engineering And Technology, Navi Mumbai
5Assistant Professor at Mahatma Gandhi Mission’s College Of Engineering And Technology, Navi Mumbai
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Abstract - Across the world, many farmers struggle with
the serious issue of leaf disease since it can be challenging to
pinpoint the precise illness affecting a certain plant. By
capturing a picture of a leaf that is considered to have a
disease, we designed an application for leaf disease
detection, making it possible to remove the damaged part in
advance, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and Image
Processing have been used in conjunction to identify and
categorize illnesses in terrestrial plants. A CNN was
established and built utilizing a data set comprising pictures
of both healthy and unhealthy plant leaves. For the leaves of
the tomato, potato, and bell pepper, we used CNN models.
Using the same data set, we also created an Android-based
application to identify plant diseases. By capturing an image
of a leaf that is suspected of having a disease, it is feasible to
use this application to predict if the leaf is indeed ill and
what sort of illness it has. In this manner, the spread can be
manipulated. This makes it feasible to stop the disease's
spread as quickly as possible.
Key Words: Farmers, Android Application, CNN, Leaf
Diseases
1. INTRODUCTION
photographed with either a high-resolution smartphone
camera or a conventional digital camera. The gathered
leaves are after that subjected to image processing. several
image processing methods, including acquisition,
restoring, segmentation, augmentation, and feature
extraction and classification are performed for detecting
plant diseases. Hence, a system for early illness
identification can help to reduce such losses. To better
control and manage plant diseases, we have Integrated a
machine learning model in our Android application, so
users can upload images and receive an accurate diagnosis
of the leaf disease. Then we will Test it with our Android
application with real-world data and evaluate its accuracy
and efficiency compared to other existing solutions[1].
2. LITERATURE REVIEW
Title Year Advantages Disadvantages
Plant Disease
Detection
Mobile
Application
Development
using Deep
Learning[1]
2022 The proposed
mobile
application
utilizes a Faster
R-CNN object
detector with an
Image processing
is slow in this
model.
Inceptionv2
backbone
network to
achieve robust
and efficient
detection.
LeafLife:
Deep
Learning
Based Plant
Disease
Detection
Application[2
]
2021 The training of
the model was
made over a data
set of various leaf
images containing
87867 images
The process is
slow and
time-consuming.
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India is a predominantly agricultural nation, where
agricultural goods support the majority of the people.
Every plant disease causes a significant decrease in the
quantity and quality of agricultural goods. Effective leaf
disease detection and diagnosis are essential that play a
key role in efficiently avoiding and managing illnesses for
secure food and agriculture. We used CNN to train a
TensorFlow model for precisely and rapidly identifying
agricultural illnesses. The application can be used not only
by farmers but also by horticulture students for research
and study and home gardening.Plant disease outbreaks
have increased in frequency recently as a result of greater
than 50 % of production losses which lead to unsteady
economic and environmental circumstances.Typically, sick
plants exhibit a variety of visual signs, such as streaks or
colored spots that can appear on the leaves and be
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high-resolution digital camera or smart camera. But,
we have taken the leaf images of tomato, potato and
pepper bell as samples from Kaggle dataset for our
research performance analysis which contains
healthy or unhealthy leaf images. The dataset
contains over 4000 specimens of leaf images.
2. Image Preprocessing
The process of pre-processing technique transforms
raw input leaf image datasets into desirable process
datasets format to develop the quality of leaf images
and to eliminate the undesired portions from the leaf
images. These processes occur in various phases such
as data cleaning, integration, reduction, and
transformation These leaf image datasets are resized
and converted into 224×224 dimensions for training
datasets and testing datasets analysis. So, the pre-
processing technique can provide preparation
datasets to identify leaf diseases through the leaf
image datasets.
3. METHODOLOGY
This framework depicts the concepts of the proposed
3. Image Augmentation
It is involved in changing and facilitating of the leaf
image representation to accurately identify leaf
disease. Thus, the training and testing leaf image
datasets are augmented to diminish the chance of
overfitting and to enrich the simplification of the
model. The process of augmentation is applied to
resize the original leaf image dataset using flipping,
cropping, and rotation techniques as well as to
convert the leaf images into RGB using color
transformation technique
approach with leaf image collection. The leaf images of
tomato, potato and pepper bell are taken from the Kaggle
dataset. Image processing techniques namely Image
preprocessing, image augmentation, feature extraction,
feature selection, and classification are applied on the leaf
image dataset. Then it is designed supervised machine
learning which trains the dataset image and extracts the
data from it. This paper introduces a leaf disease detection
system using a CNN architecture such as Sequential.
The proposed method controls the following procedures
step by step to identify leaf diseases.
1. Leaf Image Dataset
The role of quantitative or qualitative datasets is very
essential to ensure the integrity of the research, the
performance of the field study or data preference.
However, Leaf images for datasets can be collected by
4. Feature Extraction
Feature Extraction is a very important phase of the
image processing technique to provide a suitable
platform and optimal constraints. The feature
extractor of the CNN-based detection framework can
extract the image feature vectors of the leaf disease.
5. Classification based on the CNN model
The key purpose of this paper is to classify leaf
diseases from image datasets using a convolutional
neural network (CNN).Mainly, the classification-based
CNN model in the image processing system involves
trained data and tested data of leaf images to
categorize the leaf diseases class[4].
with 98.88%
accuracy.
Disease
Detection of
Plant Leaf
using Image
Processing
and CNN with
Preventive
Measures[3]
2020 In this framework
classifies the
processed leaf
images into
potato early
blight, potato late
blight, tomato
The paper just
specifies and
spots the disease
of potato leaves
and not other
plants.
early blight and
tomato late blight
using AlexNet and
ResNet-50
architectures
Plant Disease
Detection and
Classification
by Deep
Learning [5]
2021 The application
can avoid the
disadvantage
caused by
artificial selection
The model can
improve its
accuracy
of disease spot
features, make
plant disease
feature extraction
more objective,
and improve the
research
efficiency.

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Fig 1: Test accuracy VS Trained accuracy.
Fig 2: Loss on the Test dataset Vs Trained dataset.
6. Tflite
We use TensorFlow Lite in our Android application it
provides particularly well-suited for use cases that require
real-time or low-latency inference So we will download the
TensorFlow Lite Android archive from the TensorFlow
website. Extract the archive and copy the TensorFlow Lite
AAR file to the libs folder of your Android project. and then
Add the following dependencies to the app-level
build.gradle file and then sync the Gradle files to download
the dependencies, Place the TensorFlow Lite model in the
assets folder of your Android project. and Create a
TensorFlow Lite Interpreter instance in your application
code to load and run the model[6].
A. Requirements gathering:
B. Design:
In this step, we have created a design for the
application that meets the requirements identified in
the previous step. We have created a user interface
(UI) design that is easy to use and visually appealing,
and you determine the application architecture and
data flow[7].
C. Development:
In this step, we have written code to implement the
design and build the application. And used the
programming language Java to write the application
code and use Android Studio, the official Integrated
Development Environment (IDE) for Android
development, to build the application[8].
D. Testing:
In this step, we have tested the application to ensure
that it works as expected and meets the requirements.
E. Deployment:
In this step, you package the application and make it
available for distribution to end-users.In the future,
we can publish the application on the Google Play
Store or App store
The development of an Android application typically
follows a methodology that includes the following steps:
In this step, we have gathered all requirements for the
application from the trained model and end-users.
Then we have identified the features and
functionalities that the application should have, to
meet the needs of its users.
Fig 3: Block Diagram

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4. RESULTS
The results have been observed by testing the various
categories of leaves and their diseases if any, by making
use of the android application. The dataset used for this
study consists of 10,000 leaf images, with 660 approx
images for each of the fifteen different categories of leaves
represented in the dataset. The images were collected
from various sources, including online databases and from
fieldwork conducted in local farms. We evaluated the
performance of our CNN using accuracy. Our Sequential
model gave an accuracy of 95.98%. The model also ran at
an average speed of 3 seconds per image on an Android
device. We also conducted user testing with 10
participants, including students, researchers, and plant
pathologists. Participants found the Android application to
be easy to use and reported an accuracy of 95% in
identifying the type of disease. Our Android application
achieved higher accuracy than other existing mobile
applications for leaf disease detection. However, the
performance was slightly lower than manual diagnosis by
plant pathologists. Fig 5: Result of Leaf Diseases
5. CONCLUSIONS
The ultimate goal of this application would be to provide a
tool for farmers or researchers to quickly and easily
diagnose leaf diseases in plants, which can help prevent
the spread of disease and increase crop yields. The
application's success would be measured by its ability to
achieve this goal and its usability by the target users.
Fig 4: UI of application
Additionally, the impact of the application on the
agricultural industry or research community could also
be evaluated as part of the overall result.
REFERENCES
[1] Hui Fuang Ng; Chih-Yang Lin; Joon Huang Chuah; Hung
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[2] Mehmet Şamil Soyer; Can Yılmaz; İsmail Mervan
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[4] PlantVillage Dataset. “Kaggle.” Google LCC, no. 2010,
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Arpit Khedekar
Pursuing B.E. in Computer
Engineering at M.G.M. College Of
Engineering And Technology, Navi
Mumbai, Maharashtra.
Samrudhi Shetty
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BIOGRAPHIES
Saloni Patil
Anik Patel
Assistant Prof. Sachin Chavan
at Department Of Computer
Engineering , M.G.M. College Of

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