Smartphone Application for Deep Learning-Based Rice Plant Disease Detection

An increase in the human population requires an increase in agricultural production. Generally, the most important thing in agriculture that affects the quantity and quality of crops is plant diseases. In general, a farmer knows that his plant is attacked by a disease through direct vision. However, this process is sometimes inaccurate. With the development of machine learning technology, plant disease detection can be done automatically using deep learning. In this study, we report on a deep learning-based rice disease detection system that we have developed, which consists of a machine learning application on a cloud server and an application on a smartphone. The smartphone application functions to capture images of rice plant leaves, send them to the application on the cloud server, and receive classification results in the form of information on the types of plant diseases. The results showed that the smartphone-based rice plant disease detection application functioned well, which was able to detect diseases in rice plants. The performance of the rice plant disease detection system with VGG16 architecture has a train accuracy value of 100% and a test accuracy value of 60%. The test accuracy value can be improved by adding the number of datasets and increasing the quality of the dataset. It is hoped that with this system, rice plant disease control can be carried out appropriately so that yields will be maximized.