Evolutionary Computation in Early Detection and Classification of Plant Diseases from Aerial View of Agricultural lands

Abstract

This research presents a new combined deep learning system for effective and reliable identification of plant diseases in complicated agricultural environments. One of the most difficult jobs in agriculture is identifying plant diseases early on. Early disease detection in plants is crucial for increasing agricultural yield. With the application of machine learning and deep learning techniques, this issue has been resolved. Large crop farms can now detect plant illnesses automatically, which is advantageous as it reduces the monitoring time. The suggested approach consists of multiple important stages. To begin with, image quality of the agricultural lands is improved through preprocessing techniques like noise reduction, gamma correction and white balancing. Data augmentation is incorporated to expand the dataset and improve the generalization capacity of the model. Efficient methods such as EfficientDet and Squeeze Net, as well as color and shape based features, are included in feature extraction. The most relevant features are selected by a Hybrid Optimization Algorithm (HOA), which integrates Mother Optimization Algorithm (MOA), Teaching learning-based optimization (TLBO) and Improved Wild Horse Optimization to detect the various plant diseases like Bacterial Blight, Tungro, Blast and Brown spot. At last, a deep learning detector, which may include Recurrent Convolutional Neural Networks (R-CNNs) and Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), identifies the location and type of objects. The use of hyper parameter tuning techniques is also implemented to avoid over fitting and improve the overall generalization. This comprehensive approach depicts encouraging results in overcoming challenges in plant disease detection.