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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS i
ABSTRACT ii
TABLE OF CONTENTS iii
LIST OF FIGURES v
CHAPTER TITLE
1 INTRODUCTION 1
1.1. Introduction to Identification of Plant Leaf Diseases 1
1.2. Aim and Objectives 2
1.3. Overview of the Thesis 2
1.4. Outlines of the Thesis 2
2 LITERATURE REVIEW 4
2.1. Previous Works on Color Transformation Structure 4
2.2. Image Segmentation 10
2.3. Feature Extraction 14
` 2.4. Classification 18
2.5. Summary 21
3 BACKGROUND AND FUNDAMENTAL THEORIES 22
3.1. Image Acquisition 22
3.2. Preprocessing 23
3.2.1. Color Transformation 23
3.2.2. Color Feature Extraction 24
3.2.3. Masking and removing green pixels 24
3.2.4. Segmentation 25
3.3. Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) 25
3.4. Support Vector Machine (SVM) Classifier 28
3.5. Summary 30
4 DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SYSTEM 31
4.1. Design of the System 31