PREDICTIVE MODEL FOR MAIZE STEM BORERS’ CLASSIFICATION IN PRECISION FARMING

International Journal of Artificial Intelligence & Applications (IJAIA), Vol.12, No.4, July 2021
DOI: 10.5121/ijaia.2021.12403 33
PREDICTIVE MODEL FOR MAIZE STEM BORERS’
CLASSIFICATION IN PRECISION FARMING
Ezeofor Chukwunazo1
, Akpado Kenneth2
and Ulasi Afamefuna3
1
Department of Electrical/Electronic Engineering,
University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria
2
Electronic and Computer Engineering,
NnamdiAzikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria
3
Department of Information Management, Federal University of Technology,
Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria
ABSTRACT
This paper presents Predictive Model for Stem Borers’ classification in Precision Farming. The recent
announcement of the aggressive attack of stem borers (Spodoptera species) to maize crops in Africa is
alarming. These species migrate in large numbers and feed on maize leaf, stem, and ear of corn. The male
of these species are the target because after mating with their female counterpart, thousands of eggs are
laid which produces larvae that create the havoc. Currently, Nigerian farmers find it difficult to distinguish
between these targeted species (Fall Armyworm-FAW, African Armyworm-AAW and Egyptian cotton leaf
worm-ECLW only) because they look alike in appearance. For these reasons, the network model that
would predict the presence of these species in the maize farm to farmers is proposed. The maize species
were captured using delta pheromone traps and laboratory breeding for each category. The captured
images were pre-processed and stored in an online Google drive image dataset folder created. The
convolutional neural network (CNN) model for classifying these targeted maize moths was designed from
the scratch. The Google Colab platform with Python libraries was used to train the model called MothNet.
The images of the FAW, AAW, and ECLW were inputted to the designed MothNet model during learning
process. Dropout and data augmentation were added to the architecture of the model for an efficient
prediction. After training the MothNet model, the validation accuracy achieved was 90.37% with
validation loss of 24.72%, and training accuracy 90.8% with loss of 23.25%, and the training occurred
within 5minutes 33seconds. Due to the small amount of images gathered (1674), the model prediction on
each image was of low confident. Because of this, transfer learning was deployed and Resnet 50 pre-
trained model selected and modified. The modified ResNet-50 model was fine-tuned and tested. The model
validation accuracy achieved was 99.21%, loss of 3.79%, and training accuracy of 99.75% with loss of
2.55% within 10mins 5 seconds. Hence, MothNet model can be improved on by gathering more images and
retraining the system for optimum performance while modified ResNet 50 is recommended to be integrated
in Internet of Things device for maize moths’ classification on-site.
KEYWORDS
Fall Army Worm, African Army Worm, Egyptian Cotton Leaf Worm, Precision Farming, Convolutional
Neural Network, Maize crop, ResNet, Stemborers
1. INTRODUCTION
The emergency of machine learning (ML) and big data technologies have open new approach of
data mining and solving agricultural intensive problems [1]. In addition, techno stacks [2] posted
report on machine learning as the trending technology used in modern agriculture sector to
improve quality of the crops and productivity is machine learning. In agricultural sector (such as

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digital farming, smart farming, precision farming), machine learning is one of the fastest growing
areas. In precision farming, machine learning has gained serious attention and now applied to
ensure optimal yield of crops in the farm such as yield prediction and quality assessment, species
identification and classification, crop disease and weed detection, etc. ML is categorized into four
types namely supervised, unsupervised, semi-supervised and reinforcement; each algorithm is
chosen based on the Scientific and Engineering problems at hand. Since maize insect species
identification and classification is one of the major problems all farmers face daily, supervised
machine learning is preferred algorithm used to tackle such. In supervised machine learning, a
machine is trained with set of a given input dataset in order to gain experience and carry out
successful prediction. The Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is chosen, designed and trained
from the scratch because it is meant for object detection and classifications. The customized CNN
algorithm (MothNet) is trained with large image dataset of maize species captured in the farm.
Two Architectures of pre-trained CNN algorithm such as ResNet and MobileNet models are
modified and subjected to learn and compared with MothNet model and best model selected for
perfect prediction of these maize species.
2. REVIEW OF RELATED WORKS
Konstantinos P.F [3] presented plant disease detection and diagnosis using deep learning models.
Various deep learning models were deployed based on convolutional neural network architecture
for images of healthy and diseases plants. Eight-seven thousand, eight hundred and forty (87840)
photographs comprising of 25 plant species in 58 classes of these plant images (both diseases and
healthy) were used for the training. VGG model outperformed the other models with 99.53%
accuracy and 0.4% loss. He also reported that the trained model used about 2 minutes on a single
Graphic processing unit with low computational power to diagnose and detect any disease present
in a plant leaves. He recommended further the development of an automated pesticide
prescription system capable of performing plant disease diagnosis accurately for farmers’ use of
appropriate pesticides.
Simon et al [4] developed Fall Army Worm (FAW) image capturing and identification using
machine-learning algorithm due to the havoc created by this said moth in the farm. They
explained that their research was triggered because of stakeholders of Food and Agriculture
Organization and University of Zambia demand to tackle the problem. They deployed transfer
learning technique by retraining the pre-trained inception v3 model on the captured insect dataset
via Google TensorFlow platform for the FAW image identification. Their trained model
achieved train accuracy of 57-60%, cross entropy of 65-70% and validation accuracy of 34-50%.
They recommended researchers to further improve on their system should enhance the training in
Google TensorFlow and deployed to Raspberry Pi for onsite testing.
Belal et al [5] presented deep learning technique for plant seedlings classification. Dataset
contained approximately 5000 images with 960 plants for different 12 species. They used
convolutional neural network (CNN) algorithms applied to image recognition and achieved their
target. The trained CNN model achieved an accuracy of 99.48% on a held-out test set. With this
model, plant seedlings classification is possible to improve on the farm produce.
Kawche et al [6] presented machine-learning techniques for rice leaf diseases detection. They
selected three different rice leaf diseases such as leaf smut, bacterial leaf blight and brown spot
disease for the experiment. Four machine-learning algorithms (K-Nearest Neighbor, decision
tree, logistic regression and Naïve Bayes) were used for the detection of the aforementioned rice
leaf diseases. Decision tree outperformed other algorithms with 97.916% accuracy on test data.
They recommended using ensemble-learning algorithm on the same dataset to check its
performance and use to evaluate theirs.

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Abhishek et al [7] presented Statistical Feature Extraction and Image Classification Methods for
whitefly pest automatic detection. The proposed system would help in classifying white fly
infected leaf images from normal leaf images. Gray Level Run Length Matrix (GLRLM) and
Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) were the statistical feature extraction methods used to
extract features from the leaf images. Also various classifiers such as Bayesian, Support Vector
machine (SVM), Binary decision tree, Artificial Neural Network and k-Nearest neighbor were
used to classify the infected leaf images. SVM outperformed the other classifier with an accuracy
of 98.46%
3. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT
Developing the system intelligence requires different stages (figure 1). When followed, these
stages ensure successful development of the model for maize insect pests’ recognition and
classification in precision farming.
Figure 1. Artificial Intelligence development stages
3.1. Maize Moths Data Capturing Techniques
Two methods of data capturing were adopted. The first method used was to set-up delta
pheromone trap in the farm for a catch while the second method, was to breed the moths larvae in
the laboratory. Three different delta pheromone traps for three categories of the maize moths
were set-up in the farm and labelled accordingly. The targeted and labelled maize moths were

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Fall Army Worm (FAW), male Africa Army Worm (AAW), and male Egyptian Cotton Leaf
Worm (ECLW). The installed delta traps with lures attract the male of these moths and catch
them. The species are nocturnal moths, which made them to operate and create havoc mainly at
night hours. When they are trapped, high definition phone camera was used to take the image of
the moths including the video footage. The maize farm, trapped moth and three categories of the
targeted moths are shown in figure 2.
FAW AAW ECLW
Figure 2. The set trap, trapped moth with lure and Spodoptera species
False environment was created in order to capture more maize moths for the system training. A
rectangular glass box was used to breed the larvae of the species to adult male and female
species. Cardboard sheet was spread on the inside-bottom part of the box and loamy soil poured
on it 1cm distance from the bottom. Maize farm was visited and those maize plants already on
attack from the larvae of the species were cut and placed inside the box. Water was spread inside
the box to moisten the environment and the box covered with black cloth to create dark
environment for the moths as shown in figure 3. The setup was visited daily to moisture the
environment and enable carbon dioxide to escape and fresh oxygen circulate within the box for
an hour. The process was repeated for three weeks (21 days) before the larvae pupated into full
matured adult male and female. Then images were taken and added into the dataset to increase
the numbers for efficient system training.
DeltaTraps
Trappedmothwithlure

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Figure 3. Adult Moths’ breeding in the Lab
3.2. Data Preparation and Pre-processing
After capturing the images of the targeted three Spodoptera species (FAW, AAW, ECLW), data
preparation and pre-processing were carried out in two phases namely data inspection, image
dataset splitting and data visualization.
Maize Species Image Data Set Inspection: In data preparation, the images of these maize moths
were filtered and selected by the Entomologist and educated farmers respectively to ensure that
the true moths required are captured for the model-building phase of the machine learning
development process. Duplicated and similar frames (images) were deleted using python scripts
to ensure effective performance of the deep learning algorithm. Further processing was done to
the images in the image dataset folder. Each image was resized using written python script to size
of 500x500 pixels and 224 x224 pixels. This is to ensure that an efficient format acceptable by
the Convolutional Neural Network model is generated. The final labeled image species of about
one thousand, six hundred and seventy–four (1674) were saved in the image dataset folder. The
size of the filtered labeled image dataset was over 4GB and was compressed using python script
to reduce the size because the images required during model building do not need to be super-
high resolution for them to work with our deep learning algorithm. The gathered image dataset
was uploaded to the online Google drive for storage and use for the model training.
Image Data Splitting: the proposed predictive model (MothNet) for maize species classification
would be evaluated to ensure that the targeted system is robust. This requires that the image
dataset be split into training set, validation/development test, and testing set. The training set
would be used by the deep learning algorithm to learn the distinguishing patterns across the
various species, and finally make predictions based on the input data. The validation set would be
used to evaluate our experiments, and then the test set would be used to evaluate the performance
of the trained Model for generalizability. Since 1674 species images could be gathered, 70:30
rule of thumb was applied to ensure perfect data set splitting. This simply means that 70% of
image data set would be for training set and 30% for validation set. The 30% for the validation
set was further split into 20% for validation/development set, and 10% for test set. In splitting the
image data set, the tf.keras.preprocessing.image_dataset_from_directory function was used. The
batch size is set to 20 images per batch to help the system perform optimally during training
phase. This means that the image data is fed to the algorithm eighty- four (84) times to complete
1674 images in the dataset during training.
Image Data Visualization: Data visualization aids the system developer to view the variation of
images present in the data set. This helps to ensure that the images are properly formatted and the

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moths’ appearance are good before feeding them into the algorithm. Matplotlib.pyplot library
was used to achieve this visualization and part of the labeled images (figure 4) in the data set was
imported randomly using matplotlib.
Figure 4. Sampled resized images of the insects in
3.3. Selecting and Building Neural Network Model from Scratch
In selecting and building a model suitable to handle the insect image classification problem at
hand, the best deep learning algorithm for image recognition and classification over the years is
chosen. A Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) is a deep learning algorithm design to
recognize and classify features in images for computer vision. It is a multi-layer neural network
designed to analyze visual inputs and perform tasks such as image classification, segmentation
and object detection, which is useful for Maize species detection and recognition. TensorFlow is
used to develop machine learning systems, and Keras, a deep learning application programming
interface (API) that runs on top of the TensorFlow, is used for model building and
experimentation.
Custom CNN Model Architecture: The developed CNN Model architecture named “MothNet”
is made up of input layer, rescaling layer, 2-dimensional convolutional layer and a max-pooling
layer, a second 2D convolutional layer and a max-pooling layer, a third 2D convolutional layer
and a max-pooling layer, and then a flatten layer, a dense layer, and an output layer as shown in
figure 5. The input layer accepts an image size of 500 height x 500 width with RGB color
channels moth image and sends it to the rescaling layer. The rescale- layer normalizes the image
pixel values from 0 to 255 to 0 to 1, as deep learning algorithms perform much better when a
value is within this range. The output is sent to the convolutional layer1 which convolves the
input image with sixteen 3x3 kernels. The sixteen outputs are generated and sent to max-pooling
layer1 for reduction. The reduced layers are sent to convolutional layer 2 to convolve with a
higher thirty-two 3x3 kernels in order to pick more features from the image. The outputs are
further reduced by passing them to max-pooling layer2. The output layers are passed to
convolutional layer 3 which convolves with sixty-four 3x3 kernels for more features extractions.
The sixty-four outputs are further reduced with max- pooling layer 3. The final outputs in 2D
pattern is transformed into 1-D by passing them through flatten layer. The dense layer uses
Softmax to classify the insects into 3 categories.

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Figure 5. Diagram of Custom CNN (MothNet) Model Architecture
Custom CNN Model Training: The customized CNN model (MothNet) training platform used
is online Google Colab with python programming language. The image dataset (1674 images)
was loaded from Google drive to Google Colab. The dataset converted to tensors using
TensorFlow API to help work with the data. During training, the TensorBoard visualization tool
was used to monitor the progress of the training. During training, the system learns following
nine stages of designed convolutional pattern. Python scripts were written to achieve stage 1
through stage 9.
Stage 1: The captured insect image was rescaled into 500x500x3 size (figure 6)) through
rescaling layer; then, normalized and sent to the convolutional layer 1.
Figure 6. Rescaled insect image for processing
Stage 2: The convolution layer 1 applies sixteen (16) different 3x3 kernels to the input image
(500x500) to generate sixteen feature maps image of 500x500 (figure 7), indicating the strength
of a detected feature in each of the input image. The activation function called rectified linear unit
(ReLU) is applied to the various generated feature maps in order to overcome the vanishing
gradient problem, allowing models to learn faster and perform better. The layer outputs the input
directly if it is positive, and zero if it’s negative. The final feature maps are further scaled down
by passing them to max-pooling layer in stage 3.

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Image Sharpen
Figure 7. 500x500x16 Image feature map extraction
Stage 3: Max-pooling layer calculates the largest value in each patch of the sixteen feature maps
and generates 250x250x16, then send the result to convolutional layer 2.
Stage 4: The convolutional layer 2 further applies thirty-two (32) filters to the resultant feature
maps 250x250 in order to detect more features in the insect image. An activation function (ReLU)
is applied to eliminate the negative values in the system and result sent to max-pooling layer of
stage 5.
Stage 5: Max-pooling layer further calculates the maximum value in each patch of the thirty- two
feature maps of 250x250 and generates 125x125 and sends the result to convolutional layer 3.
Stage 6: The convolutional layer 3 applies sixty-four (64) filters to the resultant feature maps
125x125 in order to deeply detect remaining features in the insect image. An activation function
is applied to eliminate the negative values in the system and result sent to max-pooling layer of
stage 7.
Stage 7: Max-pooling layer calculates the maximum value in each patch of the sixty-four feature
maps of 125 x125 to generate 62x62 and send the result to the flatten layer
Stage 8: The flatten layer converts convolutional layer 2-D image feature outputs of 62x62x64
into 1-D fully connected layer of 246016 outputs in a single column and submit same to dense
layer.
Stage 9: The dense layer with 128 neurons uses activation function called Softmax to classify the
maize insect pests into FAW, ECLW, and AAW. The trained MothNet model was finally
optimized, compiled and transferred into the Jetson Nano memory for image recognition of maize
insects. The learning flow diagram of the MothNet model is shown in figure 8.
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Figure 8. Flow Chart steps for MothNet model training

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MothNet Model Training performance: The system was trained using 1674 images in the dataset.
The training and validation accuracy and loss plots are shown in figure 9. There was an over
fitting noticed on both accuracy and loss graphs. The training accuracy was 100% accuracy but
the validation accuracy 93% which showed an over-fitting. The same happened to the training
and validation loss. In loss graph, the training achieved 0% loss but the validation achieved 23%
loss which is not efficient after training. This was mostly due to the small image dataset captured
and the network model needed some hyper-parameter tuning as well. The system was improved
upon by applying dropout and data augmentation.
Figure 9. MothNet Training and validation accuracy and loss
Dropout and Data Augmentation: The image size of 500x500 was rescaled and used for the
system training but noticed that the system overfits when viewed online via TensorBoard
Development environment, which makes the model not efficient. In order to learn relevant
features from the image and improve on the MothNet model, dropout layer with 20% was added
between the max-pooling layer 3 and flatten layer. This means that 20% of the learnable
parameters are dropped. The effect of adding the random dropout is that the function forces the
network to learn less redundant representations of image dataset thereby making it more robust
and less prone to overfitting.
Augmenting image data set help avoid overfitting the training data since limited images were
captured. Also, noting that the dataset did not account for all the future predictions of the targeted
maize insect pests such as image on a fly, image on different angles, etc. Image random
transformation is achieved through data augmentation which added more styles and position to
the images in the data set. This augmentation is done during training which rotates the image as it
passes through the model’s stages. After the introduction of the drop out layer in the architecture
and performing data augmentation, the enhanced training and validation accuracy and loss graphs
plot for 20 epochs are shown in figure 10.

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Figure 10. Enhanced Training and Validation accuracy and losses
Looking at the graph, the new training accuracy achieved was 42% at 0 epoch and progressed to
90% at 20 epochs while validation accuracy achieved was 53% at 0 epochs and progressed to
90% at 20 epochs whereas the training and validation losses reduced to 10% at 20 epochs. This
shows that the system did not overfit and has improved during training, for optimal recognition of
the species. The validation accuracy achieved is 90.37% and validation loss is less than 10%
while training accuracy was 90.8% with training loss of 23.25% are achieved, and training
occurred within 5minutes 33seconds.
MothNet Model Test Result: Five images were picked from each categories of the maize moths
reserved from the remaining 30% image dataset. Each image of these species was passed to
MothNet model via online Google Colab and the model returned its prediction on each image.
The MothNet model prediction accuracies on Fall Army Worm adults (FAWs), African Army
Worm adults (AAWs) and Egyptian Cotton Leaf Worm adults (ECLWs) are showcased in figure
11, figure 12 and figure 13 respectively. In figure 11, on the predicted class column, only one
moth was wrongly predicted as FAW while the remaining predictions are correct even with low
percentage accuracies.
Figure 11. Fall Army Worm (FAW) prediction by the MothNet model
In figure 12, on the predicted class column, only one moth was wrongly predicted as AAW while
the remaining predictions are correct even with low percentage accuracies.

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Figure 12. Predicted AAWs with their accuracies
In figure 13, on the predicted class column, only two moths were wrongly predicted as ECLW
while the remaining predictions are correct even with low percentage accuracies.
Figure 13. Predicted ECLWs with their accuracies
4. TRANSFER LEARNING
The need for transfer learning cannot be overemphasized because of the small dataset of the
maize moth images gathered. Supervised learning algorithm requires large dataset for perfect
learning and prediction. The custom CNN (MothNet) model might not be perfect in its prediction
due to the few (1674) images captured and used for the system training. Pre-trained models were
modified and deployed for better predictions. The custom CNN model is compared with the pre-
trained models (ResNet 50 & MobileNetV2) in order to select the most optimal and generalizable

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model for the system. ResNet-50 and MobileNetV2 were chosen because they have been trained
on ImageNet and possess high inference speed for computer vision tasks.
4.1. Residual Neural Network (ResNet 50)
ResNet 50 is one of the imageNet pre-trained models of CNN architecture [8], selected for image
recognition which has been found excellent in doing such tasks. It has bottleneck architecture and
contains 7×7 convolution layer with 64 kernels, a 3×3 max pooling layer with stride 2, 16
residual building blocks, a 7×7 average pooling layer with stride 7 without fully- connected layer
head. Since the captured image dataset of the maize species is small (the number of images is
1674), ResNet architecture is modified to suite the work as follows:
i. Remove the fully connected nodes at the end of the network (that is, where the actual class
label predictions are made).
ii. Replace the fully connected nodes with freshly initiated ones (that is., using custom CNN
defined FC layer of MothNet with 3 classes as represented in the dataset).
iii. Freeze CONV layers in the network before the FC layers (ensuring that any previous robust
features learned by the CNN are not destroyed).
iv. Re-train only the added custom FC layer heads.
v. Unfreeze all of the CONV layers in the network and perform a second pass of training. The
final modified ResNet-50 architecture for maize species recognition is shown in figure 14.
Figure 14. Modified ResNet 50 Architecture for Maize species Recognition [8]
With this development, the input image is now resized from 500x500x3 to 224x224x3 to be in the
acceptable format that the modified pre-trained ResNet model expects.
Training & Validation Accuracy and Loss of ResNet Model: Looking at the graph shown in
figure 15, the training accuracy achieved 82.5% and its validation accuracy 92.5% on 1 epoch.
Both proceed to 98% after completing 20 epochs with no overfitting. Also, training losses
achieved 45% and reduced to 2% and validation losses 27% and reduced to 2% after iteratingfor
20 epochs. This shows that the system did not overfit and has smooth learning with less error.

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After training the modified ResNet-50 model, validation accuracy achieved 99.21% and loss of
3.79% and training accuracy of 99.75% with loss of 2.55% within 10mins 5 seconds.
Figure 15. Training and Validation accuracy & losses on ResNet Model
4.2. Modified ResNet 50 Model Test Result
The same five images were picked from each category of the maize moths to test the predictive
power of the modified ResNet 50. Each image of these species was passed to the model via online
Google Colab and the model returned its prediction on each image. The MothNet model
prediction accuracies on Fall Army Worm adults (FAWs), African Army Worm adults (AAWs)
and Egyptian Cotton Leaf Worm adults (ECLWs) are showcased in figure 16, figure 17 and
figure 18 respectively. In figure 16, all the FAW images were predicted correctly with percentage
accuracies.
Figure 16. Correctly predicted FAWs and accuracies

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In figure 17, all the AAWs images sent were correctly predicted with percentage accuracies.
Figure 17. Correctly predicted AAWs and accuracies
In figure 18, on predicted class column, only one image was wrongly predicted as FAW but
others correctly predicted as ECLWs with percentage accuracies.
Figure 18. Correctly and wrongly predicted ECLWs and accuracies

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5. CONCLUSION
In this work, MothNet model was developed for the aggressive maize moths’ prediction. The
design of MothNet model was based on Convolutional Neural Network architecture with fine-
tuned hyper parameters. Images of the targeted maize moths were captured via the use of delta
pheromone traps set up in the maize farm. The captured images of three different targeted insects’
categories were pre-processed and total of 1674 images stored in the image dataset folder and
uploaded to online Google drive. Online Google Colaboratory platform (Python language based)
was used to train the designed and customized CNN model called MothNet for the insects’
classification. Due to the small size of the images captured and processed, data augmentation and
dropout were carried out in order to get better prediction accuracy. The training and validation
ration of 70:30 was used to avoid underfitting/overfitting and ensure minimal data loss. The
trained MothNet model achieved accuracy of 91% with loss of 18.38% and when applied to real
time testing, the predictions were not confident. The MothNet model predicted with low
percentage accuracies on each image received which led to using transfer learning to improve on
the prediction accuracies. ResNet 50 model was selected, modified and fine-tuned to give better
prediction accuracies required. It achieved accuracy of 99% with loss of 4.35% and when tested,
the confident was excellent. Its prediction gave high percentage accuracies to almost all the moths
inputted. Hence, the developed MothNet model requires retraining with more images to do better
prediction while modified ResNet 50 model is selected and recommended to be integrated in an
embedded device for on-site proper detection and classification of these maize insect moths in the
farm.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Special thanks to Zakka Usman, an associate professor and entomologist from crop and soil science,
University of Port Harcourt, for initiating this research work and supervised till the end. We thank the
funding body, PETROLEUM TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT FUND SCHOLARSHIP BOARD, for
their total support to ensure its success. Thanks to Steven Oladele, graduate from University of Port
Harcourt who greatly assisted in the model development.
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AUTHORS
Ezeofor, Chukwunazo Joseph is a PhD scholar at NnamdiAzikiwe University Awka
(NAU) and a lecturer in the Department of Electrical/Electronic Engineering,
University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) both in Nigeria. He obtained his B.Eng in
Computer Engineering (ESUT) and M.Eng in Communication Engineering (FUTO).
His doctorate field of study is in Computer and Control System Engineering and
research interest in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Machine Learning, Automation
and Control, and Neural Networks. He is a registered member of Council for the
Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) and Nigerian Society of Engineers
(NSE). Ezeofor is happily married with four children.
Akpado, Kenneth Aghaegbunam is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Electronic and Computer Engineering, NnamdiAzikiwe University Awka, Anambra
State, Nigeria. He obtained his B.Eng in Electrical/Electronic Engineering (FUTO),
M.Eng in Electronic and Engineering and Ph.D in Electronic and Computer
Engineering (UNIZIK) both in Nigeria. Akpado specialties and interest is in
Computer/Control Systems, Artifificial Intelligence, Renewable Energy and Robotics.
Computer Engineering (UNIZIK) with specialties in Computer and Control
Ulasi Afamefuna Godfrey is a PhD student at Federal University of Technology
Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria. (FUTO) He obtained his B.Eng in Computer Engineering
(ESUT) and M.Tech in Information Management Technology (FUTO). His research
interest is in Network security, Data mining, Machine learning etc. He is a registered
member of Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) and
Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE). Ulasi is happily married with children.

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