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MANGO PLANT LEAF DISEASE DETECTION USING IMAGE
PROCESSING
Santosh Jadhav1, Nitesh Kale2, Jay Palkar3, Rakesh Rewale4,Ajinkya Bavdhankar5
1Asst.Prof, Dept. of Information Technology, FAMT, Ratnagiri
2Student, Dept. of Information Technology, FAMT, Ratnagiri
3Student, Dept. of Information Technology, FAMT, Ratnagiri
4Student, Dept. of Information Technology, FAMT, Ratnagiri
5Student, Dept. of Information Technology, FAMT, Ratnagiri

Abstract :-The detection of plant leaf disease detection is very important factor to decrease
the serious problem. Now a days many types of disease are seen on the plants. For
increasing production and quality, it is very important to control all such harmfull disease.
For controlling such disease it is necessary to detect specific disease and analyze it. In our
country many farmers are not so educated to get the correct information about all such
disease, the require well known expert advisor. But it is impossible for expert advisor to
reach at every farmer. Even if got expert advisor, expert advisor uses naked eye to
obervation. But naked eye observation is not provide more accuracy. We introduce here
new approach for detecting plan disease using image processing technique. It is very
accurate method in the detection of plant leaf disease, which will minimize the losses and
increasing the economical profit. It include following steps in that, Image Aquisition,
Histogram Equalization, Gray-scale Conversion, Image Thresholding, Feature Extraction
and Pattern Matching.
Keywords :- Image Aquisition, Histogram Equalization, Gray-scale Conversion, Image
Thresholding, Feature Extraction, Pattern Matching.

I. INTRODUCTION

Many peoples in India at kokan region are farmers. They depend on the mango
production. They have aim to increase production efficiency and quality of product. Mango
fruits are the most important agricultural product in kokan region from customer view. The
economical profit depends on a product quality which is depends on healthy plants and seeds.
So for increasing the profit farmer mainly focuses on these two main things. Instead there is
one more thing which affect on a production that is multiple type of diseases in mango plant
leaf. To increase profit we have to control diseases. But it is necessary to detect and control
such types of diseases in a specific time period which is at there initial state. So it is
important to destroy such diseases before it will affect on some basic operation of mango
plant body such as Photosynthesis, transpiration, pollination, fertilization, germination etc.
These diseases created due to the pathogens such as fungi, bacteria and viruses. Therefore, it
is necessary to diagnosis a mango plant leaf diseases. For that farmers requires continuous
monitor the plant body which is time consuming process. It also the very expensive process
for the farmers [2]. So the latest method we are developing for detecting plant leaf disease
which is more accurate and less time consuming[3]. In this method robot guidance use to
inspection and next processes. The objective of this paper is to concentrate on the mango
plant leaf disease detection based on the pattern matching.

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II. METHODOLOGY
Implementation of this project is possible by using .NET softwares and cross
platform liabraries of image processing.

For detection and identification of plant leaf diseases we have used an image
processing based solution. The digital images are acquired from the environment using a
digital camera. Then image-processing techniques are applied to acquired images to
extract useful features that are necessary for further analysis. After that Pattern Matching
technique is used for the identification as per specific problem.
Here the leaf disease detection is done using the following six steps that is:

2.1 IMAGE ACQUISITION:

For the analysis of mango plant leaf diseases we require images of diseases leaf.
There are many types of the diseases on the leaf. Firstly image acquisition is very important
step in mango leaf disease detection. These disease leaf images are acquired by using
different digital technique. In this technique digital camera is used to capture images. For the
analysis of disease on the leaf, better quality images are required. For the analysis of the
diseases and the pattern matching, image database is required. The construction of an image
database is clearly dependent on the application. This database affects on the efficiency and
accuracy. The image database on the application itself is responsible for the better efficiency
of the identification which decides the strong part of the algorithm.

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Disease affected leaf image

2.2 HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATION:

Histogram is a display of statistical information with the help of graph that organizes
a group of data point into user specified ranges. The method is useful in images with
backgrounds and foregrounds.

Histogram equalization is used to enhance contrast. It is not necessary that contrast

will always be increase in this. There may be some cases were histogram equalization can be
worse. In that cases the contrast is decreased.

Histogram equalization is a specific case of the more general class of histogram

remapping methods. These methods seek to adjust the image to make it easier to analyze or
improve visual quality.

2.3 GRAY-SCALE CONVERSION:

Grayscale content the a range of shades that have gray color without appear of any
other colors. The total absence of transmitted and reflected light that identified by darkest
shade which is black in color. The lightest shade is white, the total transmission or reflection
of light at all visible wavelength.

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RGB Image Gray-scale Image

2.4 IMAGE THRESHOLDING:

A process of converting a gray scale image (gray scale as a input) to bi-level image
by using optimal threshold is called as Image thresholding. There are two types of
thresholding algorithms

 Global thresholding algorithm

 Local or adaptive thresholding algorithm

2.5 FEATURE EXTRACTION:

Feature extraction is the process of defining a set of features, or image characteristics,
which will most efficiently represent the information that is important for analysis and
identification.There are three methods of feature extraction which are mostly used. These are,
 Texture Based Feature Extraction
 Shape Based Feature Extraction
 Color Based Feature Extraction

1.1.1. Texture Based Feature Extraction :-

An image texture is a set of matrices calculated in image processing designed to

recognize texture of an image. Texture gives us information about the color or intensity in an
image or selected region of an image. Texture is also the important property of image. but it
is not able to describes the image features as that of color because it is related to only with the
special arrangement of color or intensity and it cannot find the similarities from the feature
database as much as color.

1.1.2. Shape Based Feature Extraction :-

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Shape based image identification is the measuring of similarity between shapes

represented by their features. Shape is an important feature and it is one of the primitive
features for image content description.

1.1.3. Color Based Feature Extraction :-

Feature extraction on the basis of its color is mostly used because of its accurate,
effectiveness, minimum storage requirement etc. We can describe color information by using
different color model such as R,G,B models. Color is identify by humans are a combination
of three basic colors. These are Red, Green, and Blue. Color based feature extraction will be
useful for a further procedure in matching of diseases.

2.6 PATTERN MATCHING:

Pattern matching is an important technique in this project, Because we are implement
this project in very important technique is pattern matching. The evolution of computer
technology has enabled many practical applications based on pattern matching, especially in
industrial automation.

To properly define a pattern matching problem, all the valid transformations of the
image should be clearly specified. In a majority of the applications the image will appear
shifted, rotated and scaled in the test image.

V. CONCLUSION
Main approach of our paper is to recognize diseases on the mango leaf. Here we have
successfully recognized the diseases for example powdery mildew, alternaria, red rust. This
result shows that this approach is a valuable approach for detection of diseases with some
computational effort. The future work of this paper will focus to develop more plants
detection of diseases and diagnosis of the disease also.

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