Investigations on identification of pests in horticultural crops under greenhouse conditions

Shanthi Chinnasamy and Revathy Baskar
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Shanthi Chinnasamy: Department of Instrumentation Engineering, MIT Campus, Anna University, Chennai, India
Revathy Baskar: Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technologyy, Chennai, India

Horticultural Science, 2024, vol. 51, issue 2, 75-84

Abstract: The early detection of pests in plants and crops is essential for the production of good quality food. Computer vision techniques can be applied for the early detection of pests and which can minimise the pesticides used on the plants. Among many pests, white flies, mites, aphids and thrips are the most hazardous pests that affect the leaves. This paper presents an automated approach for the detection of different types of pests from leaf images of plants. The images of the plant leaves were acquired using a digital camera. Image pre-processing techniques, such as noise removal, filtering and contrast enhancement, are used for improving the quality of the images. Then, the k-means clustering method and global thresholding were used for segmenting the pests from the infected leaves. Textural features are extracted from those segmented images by statistical feature extraction methods. Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Binary Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifiers were used to classify the unaffected leaf images from the pest affected leaf images and a multi-SVM classifier was used to identify the different types of pests.

Keywords: Pest identification; image processing; artificial neural network; support vector machine; white flies; mites; aphids; thrips (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.17221/158/2022-HORTSCI

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