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Grahame Jackson posted a new submission ‘New artificial intelligence algorithm for more accurate plant disease detection ‘
Submission
New artificial intelligence algorithm for more accurate plant disease detection
Phys.Org
by NanJing Agricultural University
AlgorithmEvery year, plant diseases caused by bacteria, viruses, and fungi contribute to major economic losses. The prompt detection of these diseases is necessary to curb their spread and mitigate agricultural damage, but represents a major challenge, especially in areas of high-scale production. Smart agriculture systems use camera surveillance equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) models to detect features of plant diseases, which often manifest as changes in leaf morphology and appearance.
However, conventional methods of image classification and pattern recognition extract features indicative of diseased plants from a training set. As a result, they have low interpretability, which means it is challenging to describe what features were learned.
Further, obtaining large datasets for model training is tedious. Handcrafted features, which are selected based on expert-designed feature detectors, descriptors, and vocabulary, offer a feasible solution to this problem. However, these often result in the adoption of irrelevant features, which reduce algorithm performance.
Read on: https://phys.org/news/2023-05-artificial-intelligence-algorithm-accurate-disease.html
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