Automatic data acquisition and spot disease identification system in plants pathology domain: Agricultural intelligence system in plant pathology domain

Plants play one of the main roles in our ecosystem. Manual identification for the leaves sometimes leads to greater difference due to look alike. People often get confused with lookalike leaves which mostly end in loss of life. Authentication of original leaf with look-alike leaf is very essential nowadays. Disease identification of plants are proved to be beneficial for agro-industries, research, and eco-system balancing. In the era of industrialization, vegetation is shrinking. Early detection of diseases from the dataset of leaf can be rewarding and help in making our environment healthier and green. Implementation involves proper data acquisition where pre-processing of images is done for error correction if present in the raw dataset. It is followed by feature extraction stage to get the best results in further classification stage. K-mean, PCA, and ICA algorithms are used for identification and clustering of diseases in plants. The implementation proves that the proposed method shows promising result on the basis of histogram of gradient (HoG) features. © 2020, IGI Global.