Deep learning for grape leaf disease detection

Abstract

Agriculture is crucial to India's economy. Agriculture supports almost 75% of the world's population and much of its gross domestic product (GDP). Climate and environmental changes pose a threat to agriculture. India is recognized for its grapes, a commercially important fruit. Diseases reduce grape yields by 10-30%. If not recognized and treated early, grape diseases can cost farmers a lot. The main grape diseases include downy and powdery mildew, leaf blight, esca, and black rot. This work creates an Android grape disease detection app which uses machine learning. When a farmer submits a snapshot of a diseased grape leaf, the smartphone app identifies the ailment and offers grape plant disease prevention tips. In this research, an android app that detects grape plant illnesses use convolutional neural network (CNN) and AlexNet machine learning architectures. We investigated and compared CNN and AlexNet architecture's efficacy for grape disease detection using accuracy and other metrics. The dataset used comes from Kaggle. CNN and AlexNet architectures yielded 98.04% and 99.03% accuracy. AlexNet was more accurate than CNN in the final result.