Rice Leaf Disease Recognition using CNN

Abstract

Abstract: The occurrence of bacterial, viral, and fungal diseases on rice leaves significantly hampers rice production, posing a challenge to meet global demand for the staple crop. While the detection of rice leaf diseases is crucial, existing methods are constrained by limitations in image backgrounds and capture conditions. Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models have emerged as a usefull avenue for disease recognition in rice leaves, yet current approaches suffer from decreased recognition rates when applied to independent datasets and are constrained by the need for large-scale network parameters. In this project, we propose an innovative CNN-based model aimed at mitigating these challenges by reducing network parameters. Through training multiple CNN- basedmodels to identify three common rice leaf diseases, our study aims to showcase the effectiveness and superiority of our approach compared to state-of-the-art CNN-based models for rice leaf disease recognition.