Ijrtm632020 24
Ijrtm632020 24
Ijrtm632020 24
ISSN 2454-6240
www.ijrtm.com
Abstract—There are many hurdles in trying to produce a Countries that grow rice, have developed their own
successful yield from the crops. Crops are eventually infested programs to increase development of rice crops. For
by pests or infected by diseases which destroys a significant example, in Bangladesh, they promised to increase the
amount of the crop if not detected in the early stages.Rice is production of rice significantly by the introduction of green
one of the major food crops of India. The majority of the
revolution package [7]. A training program that provides
population consume rice as their daily meal. But every year, a
significant part of the crop is destroyed by diseases. Therefore, science-based information to farmers about integrated pest
detection and prevention of such diseases in advance will help and disease management was founded by Farmer Schools in
us have a greater yield and healthy crop. According to the Thailand. This helps the farmers to maximize the yield
statistics given by International Rice Research Institute, about while reducing the diseases [8]. Due to the public policy,
37% of the crop is lost to diseases annually. Modern technology some of the developed countries have neglected the farmers
has advanced enough where farmers are able to make out the and their need for education of the evolving agricultural
diseases from the symptoms shown by the crop and searching science [9]. Though chemicals play a key role in abstaining
for them in the internet through smartphones. So here, we the diseases [10], they are also likely polluting the
propose a method to detect the diseases with the help of YOLO
environment. The chemicals should only be used when there
object detection algorithm. A thorough research was
conducted into the mechanisms of farming and the type of are really needed so that the drawbacks of their usage can be
conditions the crops were grown in, along with the prevention reduced [12]. IPM (Integrated Pest Management) is a
methods of diseases. With the help of image processing and framework that helps the agriculture practitioners to detect
supervised learning, our system detects the diseases so that the diseases and pests and to make tough decisions by
necessary steps can be taken towards the cure. A number of providing them with the scientific knowledgeand technology
images were taken and pre-processed before giving them to the [11]. The in-time detection of lethal diseases can be made
model for training. We were able to achieve an accuracy of possible to the farmers with the help of technology [13].
98.92 percent. This model can be used to help the farmers to Advance computing technologies can help farmers make
detect the diseases and curb the disease in its early stages so
decisions on many aspects of growing crops. Proper
that the yield is maximized at the end of the year.
diagnosis of the crop in fields is a key point in maximizing
Keywords—deep learning, AI, supervised learning, the yield [14]. [13]. Unfortunately, the amount of
classification, cnn, yolo applications of technology is by far less in the field of
agriculture compared to other fields like engineering,
I. INTRODUCTION medicine etc.Due to this, it is still a big problem for the
agricultural society to develop a system for the detection of
Rice is cultivated in more than 100 countries with diseases and calculating the percentage of loss in yield in a
varying environmental conditions [1]. It is a major food crop timely manner [15]. For most cases human visually
in majority of the Asian countries [2]. Unfortunately, there conducts the treatment of diseases. Trained examiners may
are a number of diseases which can weaken the crop and be effective in identifying plant diseases, but some related
damage the yield if not treated on time. Thus, it is important drawbacks may be detrimental to disease recognition efforts
that these diseases are cured in time [3]. Rice crop is [3]. Application of advanced technological tools in the field
destroyed not only by diseases but several pests as well [4]. of agriculture can greatly help the farmers to detect and
Of the 266 species of insects found in the rice fields, more prevent diseases without waiting for an expert’s aid [16].
than 40 of them are pests [5]. Therefore, the need for the Computer vision along with deep learning and image
timely detection of the disease or pest becomes the utmost processing has been applied in various fields of science
priority[6]. which have proven to have applications even in the field of
the today’s evolving agriculture [17]. Machine vision
National Conference On Advances in Electronics Signal Processing and Communications (AESPC-2020)
Volume 6 Issue 3, JUNE 2020
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT (IJRTM)
ISSN 2454-6240
www.ijrtm.com
techniques are used in addition to the computer vision SoftMax activation function is used at the output layer
techniques which are playing a key role in the protection of which classifies the objects based on the class probabilities.
crops [18]. Further addition of digital image processing has A loss function(lossfunc) is also associated with the network
led to the idea of crop-field management [19]. The use of to calculate the loss/error(errcalc) during training. Generally,
modern computer vision and machine vision techniques categorical_crossentropy function is used to calculate the
helps us to implement a disease detection system which not loss associated with the training of CNN classification
only reduces the amount of time and energy but also models.
performs with higher accuracy[20]. Let’s say there is an image(img) of dimensions v×v (vi),
Many object detection and classification models which is being given to the CNN network. A kernel(kern) of
have been used for the timely detection and control of the dimensions p×p (pi) is being used with valid-padding (no
diseases [21]. In Kawasaki et Research. Al., a CNN based padding). A max pooling layer of size c x c is being used
disease classification system was implemented which with a stride (str) of 1. The output of the given convolution
achieved high classification efficiency by training images layer(convout) will be a feature map of the order (v-p+1, v-
alone [22]. Sladojevic et. in research. Al., a deep p+1). This is again sent to a max pooling layer to extract the
convolutional network was used to build a plant disease more distinguished features which gives an output with the
recognition model based on the classification of the leaf dimensions ((v-p+1)/c, (v-p+1/c)). These are again given to
image. In the field of image classification [23], a convolution layer and the process is repeated for as many
Convolutional neural networks (CNN) achieved amazing convolution layers in the network. In this way each
result. Yao and. In their research, Al. suggested a model for convolution layer extracts a specific feature of the image. As
the detection and recognition of White-backedplanthoppers the number of convolution layers increases so does the
using a three-layered approach. This approach has been feature extracting ability of the network. The output of the
proven to be successful in identifying various planthoppers CNN(Cnnout) is the class probabilities and the class with
developmental stages at rice plants [24]. highest probability is predicted as the output.
As we can see, many researches have conducted by
various authors on the problem statement. Next, we go
through the basic architectures and the steps involved at 𝐶𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑡 = 𝑖𝑚𝑔 ∗ 𝑓𝑒𝑥𝑡 = ∑𝑁
𝑖=0 𝑤𝑔𝑡𝑖 ∗ 𝑖𝑚𝑔𝑖 ∗ 𝑓𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝑖 (1)
each step and usefulness of these architectures in different
fields and their applications. In the next chapter we go 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑜𝑢𝑡 = ((𝑣𝑖 − 2𝑝𝑎𝑑𝑑 + 𝑝𝑖 )⁄𝑠𝑡𝑟 ) + 1 (2)
through the methodology opted by us and the design details
i.e., our methodology and the implementation of our method 1
𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑐 = ( ) ∑𝑁
𝑖=0 ∇𝑖 × 𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑓𝑢𝑛𝑐 (𝑖𝑚𝑔𝑖 , 𝐶𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑖 , 𝑤𝑔𝑡𝑖 )
into a working prototype. In the next chapter we discuss 𝑁
about the reliability and usefulness of our model, the results (3)
both in simulation and in real-time and the comparison of
our design with the other existing models.