Plant Disease Detection using Convolution Neural Network (CNN)

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Plant Disease Detection using Convolution Neural Network (CNN)
1Assistant professor, Computer Engineering
Datta Meghe College of Engineering, Airoli, New Mumbai – 400708(Maharashtra) (India)
2,3,4Students, Computer Engineering
Datta Meghe College of Engineering, Airoli, New Mumbai – 400708(Maharashtra) (India)
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Abstract— When crop plant is suffering from pests it
attacks the agricultural production of the world. As
usual farmers and experts focus the plants by eye for
detect and notice of disease. But this manual process is
time processing, high-cost and inexact. Therefore,there
is need for accurate and efficient automatic detection of
the plant diseases. The main aim of this project is tofind
a solution to the problem of 38 different classes of plant
diseases detection using the simplest approach while
making use of minimal computing resources to achieve
better results and high accuracy compared to the
traditional models. Convolution Neural Network (CNN)
training model is deployed for detection of plant
diseases. CNN model employs automatic feature
extraction to help in the classification oftheinputimage
into respective disease classes. This proposed system
has achieved an average accuracy of 92% indicating the
feasibility of the neural network approach even under
unfavorable conditions.
Key Words: CNN, Disease detection, Confusion Matrix
1. INTRODUCTION
The agriculture production of the farmer is much reduced if
crops are having pests. Manual process of identification and
recognition of diseses by experts is cumbersome and takes
lot of time. Previoustechnologiesbasedonfeatureextraction
from the images of the plant have less accuracy as compared
to deep learning approaches. l All steps are required for
implementing this disease recognition model are fully
expressed in this project, starts from collecting images and
information to make a database, evaluate by agricultural
experts, a deep learning substructure to achieve the deep
CNN learn. This project may be a new perspective in
detecting plant diseases using the deepconvolutional neural
network trained and refine to become accurately to the
database of a plant’s leaves that was converged
unaccompanied for diverse plant diseases.
The proposed model is detecting the disease from the given
plant leaf image. This can be achieved using CNN. In the
proposed model we have used Convolution Neural Network
(CNN) for the classification of plant disease detection.
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is a Deep Learning
algorithm which can take in an input image, assign
importance (learnable weights and biases) to various
aspects/objects in the image and be able to differentiate one
from the other. Using CNN for plant diseasedetectionisnota
new domain. A lot of work has been already done on this
domain. But we have found out that most of the research
used very small dataset as well as the activation functions
that they used can be replaced with large datasetandvarious
optimization functions.So,theproposedmodelwillbehaving
improved the accuracy of plant disease detection using CNN
over the previous work by applying newer technique. We
have also created a simple website giving the image as an
input and the websitewill classify the Plantdiseasedetection
using the proposed CNN model. The dataset that we have
used for this project consists of plant leafimageswhichwere
taken from Kaggle dataset.
2. LITERATURE SURVEY
Prasanna Mohanty et.al, 2016 [1], detected disease in plants
by training a convolutional neural network. CNN model is
trained to classify healthy and unhealthy plant of 14 crops.
This model achieved an accuracy of 99.35% on test dataset.
Malvika Ranjan et.al, 2017 [2], proposed use HSV features
for feature extraction on cotton plant and used Artificial
Neural Network (ANN) to classify disease crops and healthy
samples. The ANN model achieved an accuracy of 80%.
S. Arivazhagan et.al, 2013 [3], proposed model process
involves four main process as follows first, a color
transformation structure is take as input RGB picture, and
then it means of a specific threshold value then green pixels
are detected , which is followed by segmentation steps, and
for obtaining advantages of segments the texture statistics
are calculated. At the end, classifiers are used for features
that are taken to identify the disease. Kulkarni et.al, 2017
[4], applied image processing methods to identifytheplant
diseases for right and accurate detection of plant diseases
using artificial neural network (ANN) and diverse image
processing methods. As the proposed approach is based on
ANN classifier and Gabor filter for feature extraction, it got
better output with a rate of recognition is 91%. R.P
Narmadha et.al, 2017 [5], applied Image processing
techniques which can be defined as the technical analysis of
an image by detecting the disease of plants leaf using
complex algorithms of machine learning. B R , Jagdesh et.al,
2019 [6], proposed methodology in which histogram
matches and their histogram specification is the
transformation image so that their histogram matches the
Nita patil1, Alpesh Tandel2, Rushika Gawade3, Arati kamble4

specified histogram in image Processing, which is well-
known by histogram equalization method is a special casein
which the specified histogram is uniformly distributed.
Dhiman Mondal et.al, 2018 [7] , proposed methodology in
which Naive Bayes is a kind of classifier which uses the
Bayes Theorem that predicts membership probabilities for
each class such as the probability that giving the record and
data points belongs to a particular class. Prof.AnjaliAYadav
et.al. 2016 [8], used support vector machine (SVM) is a type
of deep learning algorithm that activate process of
supervised learning which using for classification and
regression of data groups of SVM methods. An SVM builds a
learning model process, which assigns new examples to one
group to another groups.
3. METHODOLOGY
We used convolution Neural Network (CNN) and it is typeof
artificial neural network used in image recognition and
processing pixel data. The CNN model is built using Python
language with TensorFlow and Keras library. The
TensorFlow has the used to handle deep learning networks
and uses many backend softwarelikeGUIandASIC.Kearasis
a high-level neural network that run on top of (works as an
interface) for TensorFlow library.
3.1 WORKING OF CNN MODEL
CNN consists of 4 different types of layers:
1. Input Layer
2. Convolution Layers
3. Max-Pooling Layers
4. Fully Connected Layers
Fig. 1. Layered view of sample CNN Model
In the above example shows how different layers in CNN
model are stacked together in order to classify the input
image.
2.1.1 INPUT LAYER
The input layer is the very beginning of the workflow for the
convolution neural network. In Convolutionneural Network
input layer should contain image data. Image data is
represented by three-dimensional matrix.
3.1.2 CONVOLUTION LAYER
The First layer of CNN is Convolution Layer. Convolution
layer is usually called as feature extractor layer because
features of the image are get extracted withinthislayer.CNN
uses filters to extract input image features. The element of
image is connected to Convolution layer to perform
convolution operation. Results of the operation is single
integer of the output volume. The output are going to be the
input for the subsequent layer. Convolution layer also
contains ReLU activation to create all negative valuetozero.
Rectified Linear Unit can be applied to take in account the
non-linearities in the output. Basically, it is just a function
that transforms its inputs into outputs that have a certain
range.
3.1.3 RECTIFIED LINEAR UNIT (ReLU)
A Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) is a non-linear activation
function that performs on multi-layer neural networks.
(1)
Where x = an input value
In this layer we remove every negative value from the
filtered image and replace it with zero. This function only
activates when the node input is abovea certainquantity. So,
when the input is below zero the output is zero.
3.1.4 MAX–POOLING LAYER
Max pooling is a type of operation that is added
to CNN's following individual convolutional layers. Max-
pooling reduces the dimensionality of images by reducing
the number of pixels in the output from the preceding
convolutional layer. The product of Convolution layer and
pooling layer is then feed into fully connected layer which
drives the final decision on the classification.
3.1.5 FULLY CONNECTED LAYER (DENSE LAYER)
Fully connected layer nothing but the feed forward neural
network. Output of the final pooling and convolution layer
will be the input of a fully connected layer and that is flatten.
Flatten means it unroll the 3-dimension matrix of the final
convolution layer into a vector.Buttheoutputofconvolution
and pooling layers both are 2D volumes. The input image
from the previous layers are flattened and fed to the Dense.
The flattened vector then undergoes few more dense layers
where the mathematical functions operations are done to
generate classification probabilities. The last layer theFully
Connected layer is used for final classification i.e.,inourcase
it will provide the final classification of the plant disease
detection. It can be done by using activation function like
Softmax.

3.1.6 SOFTMAX
The last layer in the Fully Connected layer is used for final
classification. It can be done by using Softmax activation
function. The softmax function turns a vectorofK real values
into a vector of K real values that sum to 1. The input values
can be positive, negative, zero, or greater than one, but the
softmax transforms them into values between 0 and 1, so
that they can be classify as probabilities. If one of the inputs
is small or negative, the softmax turns it into a small
probability, and if an input is large, then it turns it into a
large probability, but it will always between 0 and 1.
The Softmax formula is as follows:
(2)
3.1.7 ADAM OPTIMIZER
Adam is an optimization solver for the Neural Network
algorithm. Adam is a popular extension to stochastic
gradient descent. It uses mini-batch optimization and can
make progress faster while seeing less data than the other
Neural Network optimization solver.
3.2 OUR CNN MODEL
For implementation of this project we have used Jupiter
Notebook.
The proposed CNN model consists of4ConvolutionLayers,4
Max-Polling layers and 2 Fully Connected layers.
Activation functions used for convolution layers and 1 fully
connected layers are ‘ReLu’, while 2nd the fully connected
layer uses Softmax for the final classification into 38 classes.
Input Size for the input layer of the model is 256 x 256. All
the images are resized to 256 x 256 before feeding then to
the Input Layer.
Other parameters of our CNN model are as follows:
1. Kernel Size or Filter Size that we have used :3x3
2. For Optimizer we have selected: Adam optimizer
3. Learning rate: Starts from 0.001 then we have used
cross entropy function from Tensorflow Keras for
monitoring improvement in Validation Loss and
changing Learning Rate automatically
The output size of each Convolution layer is calculatedusing
following formula:
Output size = Input_size – (filter_size – 1)
Size of the input Image will be 256 x 256 with 128 filters.
And by the end of 4th Convolution layer ouroutputsizeis3x
3 after applying 64 filters. The Output size of the final Dense
Layer is 38 because we are classifying given Plant Village
Images into 38 classes. Figure 2 shows summary of the
finalized CNN model after experimenting with the various
kernel sizes and optimization functions.
Fig. 2. Summary of the Finalized Model
3.3 DATASET USED
The Dataset was taken from Kaggle of Plant Village dataset.
We have included vegetable plants of Apple, Blueberry,
Cherry, Corn, Grape, Orange, Peach, Paper Bell, Potato,
Raspberry, soybean, Squash, Strawberry, Tomato vegetable
detection. Dataset have number of images of each plant. Our
Plant Village dataset contain 38 classes of plant disease
types.

Fig. 3. Sample images of Plant Village dataset for 38
classes.
Our dataset contains a total of 78534 images of disease and
healthy plant leaves. Dataset contain 14 plant crops and 38
classes. Some of the images will be used for training of our
CNN model while rest of the images will be used for testing.
Our training dataset is divided into 80:20 training and
validation split, i.e. 80% for training set and 20% for
validation set.
Fig. 4. Classes of plant leaf diseases
3.4 TESTING METHODOLOGY
Testing of our Model is done on two datasets as follows:
1. Validation Set used during training
2. Test Set which contains images that our CNN model
has never seen
3.4.1 EVALUATION METRICS
The most important task inbuildingCNNmodelistoevaluate
itsperformance.Followingparametersareusedasevaluation
metrics.
3.4.1.1 PRECISION
The precision is calculated as the ratio between the numbers
of positive samples correctlyclassified to the total numberof
samples classifiedaspositive(eithercorrectlyorincorrectly).
It basically shows how often the prediction is actually
correct.
(3)
3.4.1.2 RECALL
It quantifies the number positiveclasspredictionmadeoutof
all positive example in the dataset.
(4)
3.4.1.3 F1-SCORE
It is weighted average between precision and recall. It
provides a single score that balances both the concerns of
precision and recall in one number.
(5)
3.4.1.4 ACCURACY
It shows the overall accuracy of our model. It is calculated
using sum of true positives (tp) and true negatives (tn)
divided by the total number of samples i.e. (tp + tn + fp + fn).
(6)
Where in equation (3), (4), (6) following terms are used as
tn= true positive
tp= true negetive
fp= false positive
fn= false negative.
3.5 CONFUSION MATRIX
A confusion matrix is a summarized table of the number of
correct and incorrect predictions yielded by a classification
model. Aconfusion matrix isaperformancemeasurementfor
our proposed model. It basically generates a Matrix Table
which compares Predicted Labels with True Labels.

4. RESULTS AND ANALYSIS
The objective of this project is to detect the plant disease
using CNN on 38 classes like Apple black rot, Apple cedar
rust, cherry powdery mildew, Grape leaf blight,tomato early
bright and potato late blight. Results of this project allowed
us to determine which parameters such as kernel size and
optimizer are best suited in order to accomplish our
objective on validation dataset. The experiments are
performed on Dell laptop with Ryzen 3 processor with 4 GB
RAM. First we have tested the performance of our model
using different parameters and after selecting the
parameters with best performance, we have tested our
finalized model on the test datasets.
Fig. 5. Graph of Training Loss vs Validation Loss and
Training Accuracy vs Validation Accuracy
After testing the proposed model on test Dataset following
Confusion Matrix is generated using Sklearn Matrics shown
by Figure 6.
Fig. 6. Confusion Matrix using finalized model on Test
Dataset.
We have calculated the accuracy of our finalized model on
Test Dataset as 92 %. Fig. 7 shows the class wise
performance for evaluation parameters on test Dataset.
Fig. 7. Performance measure on each class.
Fig. 8. Precision, recall and f1-score of each crop.
The experiments are performed on Plant Village dataset
which consist of healthy and disease plant leaf image. For
input data disease, samples of plant leaves like apple with
black rot disease, tomato leaf with early blight disease, corn
leaf with northing leaf blight, potatowithearlyblight disease
etc. are considered. CNN model istrainedtoidentifydiseases
of each plant class. The performance of our model is shown
by the specific error table known as confusion matrix. It
shows correctly and incorrectly prediction for each class.
The performance of the model is evaluated by average value
of diagonal entries which representsthenumberofcorrectly
predicted disease. The accuracy for our CNN model is 82%.
Figure 8 shows the precision recall and f1-score for each
class. The average precision, average recall and average f1-
score for all crops disease are found to be 0.91,0.93 and 0.92
respectively.

5. CONCLUSION
A large part of the Indian population dependsonagriculture,
hence it becomes very needful to detect the plant diseases
that results in losses, since agriculture is critical to the
growth of our economy. This project based on deep learning
approach called CNN is utilized to build 14 different plant
leaf disease detection system. This approach utilized a
minimum set of layers such as convolution layer,ReLulayer,
Max- pooling, fully connected layertoidentifythediseasesof
38 classes. The neural network is trained with PlantVillage
dataset. A GUI is designed for this system. This GUI permits
the user to choose the images from the dataset. User can
select any image from the dataset and the image getsloaded,
following which the prediction of the disease will be shown
on the User Interface. Convolutional neural network,trained
for detecting the plant leaf disease, predicts the disease of
the test image correctly for almost all the images with few
anomalies. We obtained 92% accuracy on test dataset of
Kaggle. The average precision,averagerecall andaverage f1-
score for all crops disease are found to be 0.91,0.93 and 0.92
respectively.
6. FUTURE WORK
Our project is deployed into the web application. It can be
extended to use as an embedded application. More number
of the images can be added to improve accuracy along with
the testing of transfer learning. For the largescaleopenfield
cultivation we can use real time monitoring using drones
and other autonomous agriculture vehicles.
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