Automatic guava disease detection using different deep learning approaches.

In many countries, agriculture plays a major role in the economy. The health of the crop is therefore very important, but there are many plant diseases that are difficult to diagnose. A close inspection is necessary in many cases, or an expert's advice is required. As a result, it is important to address diseases in plants. Several attempts have been made to develop programs that detect diseases in plants because of the ever-rising growth of computer vision and deep learning. This paper focuses on detecting diseases in guava fruits. We use a dataset with pictures of 4 common diseases found in the fruit namely Phytopthra, Red Rust, Scab, Styler and Root. With the help of transfer learning and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) this paper train various models on the dataset and compare the results. The results we evaluated using accuracy, precision, Recall and F1 score. We had multiple models with test accuracy of 99%, with highest accuracy of 99.62% for DenseNet169. The results of this study are also compared with previous methods. According to the results, the proposed methods achieved better results than the previous approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]