UAV BASED PLANT DISEASE DETECTION

SYSTEM
 SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES AND
TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF MECHATRONIC ENGINEERING

TAKUDZWA MATANGIRA
C17130816P
Matangiratakudzwa@gmail.com
 Problem Statement

• The process of manually inspecting plants to evaluate

their health is psychological, and it is prone to bias,
optical illusion, and inaccuracy.
AIM

• To come up with a research which provides the best AI

algorithm to be used for a UAV based plant disease
detection system.
OBJECTIVES

1. Develop a machine learning model for detecting the

presence of defects.

2. Develop a model to recognize the defects detected and

give the diagnosis.
 METHODOLOGY

• To achieve the first objective of developing a model that

detects defects on a plant leaf the author used VDI-2206
approach for selection between the following algorithms
• (A)YOLO (B)RCNN(C)FAST-RCNN(D)FASTER-RCNN
• The decision matrix was used to assess the overall utility
of each of the solution variant.
• From the 4 possible solutions Faster RCNN proved to be
more accurate in detecting small size objects and having
a higher input image resolution.
 YOLO RCNN FAST-RCNN FASTER-RCNN
Evaluation Weigh Rating Rating Rating Rating Rating Rating Rating Rating x
Criteria t x x x weight
weight weight weight

Frame 40 4 160 2 80 3 120 5 200

per
second
Mean 30 3 90 2 60 4 120 5 150
average
precision
Object 20 2 40 2 40 2 40 3 60
size
Input 20 2 40 2 40 2 40 3 60
image
resolution
GPU load 30 5 150 1 30 2 60 2 60
Speed 30 4 120 2 60 2 60 3 90
Total 600 310 440 620
 METHODOLOGY CONTINUED

• The second objective was developing a model to

recognize the defects detected and give a diagnosis.
• Faster-RCNN proved to have a higher mean average
precision than the other algorithms.
• VDI 2206 was the approach used to select Faster-RCNN
as the main algorithm.
 RESULTS
IMAGE DATASET.
Plant village dataset was used in this
study.The PlantVillage collection contains
54,305 leaf pictures from 14 crop species
and 26 illnesses, which are divided into
38 crop-disease pairs. This collection
contains crisp photos of plant leaves, with
only one leaf per image. It also has pre-
programmed training and testing
sections.
RESULTS
IMAGE ANNOTATION
Areas of sick patches in the image can
be precisely annotated using the labellmg
annotation tool and the knowledge of
experienced agriculture professionals.
When the annotation is finished, an XML
file with the types of sick areas and their
positions is generated for each image.
RESULTS
TRAINING AND VALIDATION.
• Training of the model is still in
progress as the dataset cointains
54,305 pictures
• Specifications for the workstation are
RAM-16GB,GPU-Nvidia Quadro with
4GB GDDR5,OS-Ubuntu
20.04,PROCCESOR-6th gen Core i7.
 CONTRIBUTION’S

1. SIMILAR SYMPTOMS IN DISORDERS-One of the

primary issues that current systems confront is their
inability to distinguish between illnesses with similar
symptoms.The author’s main effort was to develop an
algorithm which can differentiate between illnesses with
similar symptoms
 CONTRIBUTION’S CONT'D

• 2.REAL TIME OPERATION-Majority of research’s

operate offline and take time in classifying the detected
disease.The author’s effort was in trying implement the
neural network on a jetson nano so it can classifyer the
detected defect in real time.
RECOMMENDATIONS

1. Use a dataset of multi-spectra images to create a

model,and use multi-spectra camera’s on the UAV for
taking pictures.
2. Adding the ability to detect anomalies that occur at the
roots of the plants.