Analysis of Plant Disease Detection and Classification Models: A Computer Vision Perspective

Presently, rapid and precise disease identification process plays a vital role to increase agricultural productivity in a sustainable manner. Conventionally, human experts identify the existence of anomaly in plants occurred due to disease, pest, nutrient deficient, weather conditions. Since manual diagnosis process is a tedious and time consuming task, computer vision approaches have begun to automatically detect and classify the plant diseases. The general image processing tasks involved in plant disease detection are preprocessing, segmentation, feature extraction and classification. This paper performs a review of computer vision based plant disease detection and classification techniques. The existing plant disease detection approaches including segmentation and feature extraction techniques have been reviewed. Additionally, a brief survey of machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) models to identify plant diseases also takes place. Furthermore, a set of recently developed DL based tomato plant leaf disease detection and classification models are surveyed under diverse aspects. To further understand the reviewed methodologies, a detailed comparative study also takes place to recognize the unique characteristics of the reviewed models.