Karthik R., Hariharan M.

, Sundar Anand, Priyanka Mathikshara, Annie Johnson, Menaka

R.,
Attention embedded residual CNN for disease detection in tomato leaves,
Applied Soft Computing,
Volume 86,
2020,
105933,
ISSN 1568-4946,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2019.105933.
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1568494619307148)
Abstract: Automation in plant disease detection and diagnosis is one of the
challenging research areas that has gained significant attention in the
agricultural sector. Traditional disease detection methods rely on extracting
handcrafted features from the acquired images to identify the type of infection.
Also, the performance of these works solely depends on the nature of the
handcrafted features selected. This can be addressed by learning the features
automatically with the help of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). This research
presents two different deep architectures for detecting the type of infection in
tomato leaves. The first architecture applies residual learning to learn
significant features for classification. The second architecture applies attention
mechanism on top of the residual deep network. Experiments were conducted using
Plant Village Dataset comprising of three diseases namely early blight, late
blight, and leaf mold. The proposed work exploited the features learned by the CNN
at various processing hierarchy using the attention mechanism and achieved an
overall accuracy of 98% on the validation sets in the 5-fold cross-validation.
Keywords: Attention; CNN; Residual connections; Tomato; Deep learning