Evaluating Data Augmentation Effects on the Recognition of Sugarcane Leaf Spot

Yiqi Huang, Ruqi Li, Xiaotong Wei, Zhen Wang, Tianbei Ge and Xi Qiao ()
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Yiqi Huang: College of Mechanical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
Ruqi Li: College of Mechanical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
Xiaotong Wei: College of Mechanical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
Zhen Wang: College of Mechanical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
Tianbei Ge: Agricultural College, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
Xi Qiao: College of Mechanical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China

Agriculture, 2022, vol. 12, issue 12, 1-19

Abstract: Research on the recognition and segmentation of plant diseases in simple environments based on deep learning has achieved relative success. However, under the conditions of a complex environment and a lack of samples, the model has difficulty recognizing disease spots, or its recognition accuracy is too low. This paper is aimed at investigating how to improve the recognition accuracy of the model when the dataset is in a complex environment and lacks samples. First, for the complex environment, this paper uses DeepLabV3+ to segment sugarcane leaves from complex backgrounds; second, focusing on the lack of training images of sugarcane leaves, two data augmentation methods are used in this paper: supervised data augmentation and deep convolutional generative adversarial networks (DCGANs) for data augmentation. MobileNetV3-large, Alexnet, Resnet, and Densenet are trained by comparing the original dataset, original dataset with supervised data augmentation, original dataset with DCGAN augmentation, background-removed dataset, background-removed dataset with supervised data augmentation, and background-removed dataset with DCGAN augmentation. Then, the recognition abilities of the trained models are compared using the same test set. The optimal network selected based on accuracy and training time is MobileNetV3-large. Classification using MobileNetV3-large trained by the original dataset yielded 53.5% accuracy. By removing the background and adding synthetic images produced by the DCGAN, the accuracy increased to 99%.

Keywords: sugarcane disease; image segmentation; deep learning; data augmentation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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