Potato Blight Detection Using Fine-Tuned CNN Architecture

Mosleh Hmoud Al-Adhaileh, Amit Verma, Theyazn H. H. Aldhyani () and Deepika Koundal
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Mosleh Hmoud Al-Adhaileh: Deanship of E-Learning and Distance Education, King Faisal University, P.O. Box 400, Al-Ahsa 31982, Saudi Arabia
Amit Verma: School of Computer Science, University of Petroleum & Energy Studies, Dehradun 248007, India
Theyazn H. H. Aldhyani: Applied College in Abqaiq, King Faisal University, P.O. Box 400, Al-Ahsa 31982, Saudi Arabia
Deepika Koundal: School of Computer Science, University of Petroleum & Energy Studies, Dehradun 248007, India

Mathematics, 2023, vol. 11, issue 6, 1-16

Abstract: Potato is one of the major cultivated crops and provides occupations and livelihoods for numerous people across the globe. It also contributes to the economic growth of developing and underdeveloped countries. However, potato blight is one of the major destroyers of potato crops worldwide. With the introduction of neural networks to agriculture, many researchers have contributed to the early detection of potato blight using various machine and deep learning algorithms. However, accuracy and computation time remain serious issues. Therefore, considering these challenges, we customised a convolutional neural network (CNN) to improve accuracy with fewer trainable parameters, less computation time, and reduced information loss. We compared the performance of the proposed model with various machine and deep learning algorithms used for potato blight classification. The proposed model outperformed the others with an overall accuracy of 99% using 839,203 trainable parameters in 183 s of training time.

Keywords: blight; deep learning; machine learning; potato (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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