Deep learning in agriculture: A survey

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) constitute a class of flexible nonlinear models designed to mimic biological neural systems. In this entry, we introduce ANN using familiar econometric terminology and provide an overview of ANN modeling approach and its implementation methods. † Correspondence: Chung-Ming Kuan, Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, 128 Academia Road, Sec. 2, Taipei 115, Taiwan; ckuan@econ.sinica.edu.tw. †† I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the editor, Professor Steven Durlauf, for his patience and constructive comments on early drafts of this entry. I also thank Shih-Hsun Hsu and Yu-Lieh Huang for very helpful suggestions. The remaining errors are all mine.

Artificial neural networks

Deep learning models for plant disease detection and diagnosis

In the era of the Internet of Things (IoT), an enormous amount of sensing devices collect and/or generate various sensory data over time for a wide range of fields and applications. Based on the nature of the application, these devices will result in big or fast/real-time data streams. Applying analytics over such data streams to discover new information, predict future insights, and make control decisions is a crucial process that makes IoT a worthy paradigm for businesses and a quality-of-life improving technology. In this paper, we provide a thorough overview on using a class of advanced machine learning techniques, namely deep learning (DL), to facilitate the analytics and learning in the IoT domain. We start by articulating IoT data characteristics and identifying two major treatments for IoT data from a machine learning perspective, namely IoT big data analytics and IoT streaming data analytics. We also discuss why DL is a promising approach to achieve the desired analytics in these types of data and applications. The potential of using emerging DL techniques for IoT data analytics are then discussed, and its promises and challenges are introduced. We present a comprehensive background on different DL architectures and algorithms. We also analyze and summarize major reported research attempts that leveraged DL in the IoT domain. The smart IoT devices that have incorporated DL in their intelligence background are also discussed. DL implementation approaches on the fog and cloud centers in support of IoT applications are also surveyed. Finally, we shed light on some challenges and potential directions for future research. At the end of each section, we highlight the lessons learned based on our experiments and review of the recent literature.

Deep Learning for IoT Big Data and Streaming Analytics: A Survey

https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/1/5125/836.2.full.pdf

Dictionary of psychology

The latest generation of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) has achieved impressive results in the field of image classification. This paper is concerned with a new approach to the development of plant disease recognition model, based on leaf image classification, by the use of deep convolutional networks. Novel way of training and the methodology used facilitate a quick and easy system implementation in practice. The developed model is able to recognize 13 different types of plant diseases out of healthy leaves, with the ability to distinguish plant leaves from their surroundings. According to our knowledge, this method for plant disease recognition has been proposed for the first time. All essential steps required for implementing this disease recognition model are fully described throughout the paper, starting from gathering images in order to create a database, assessed by agricultural experts. Caffe, a deep learning framework developed by Berkley Vision and Learning Centre, was used to perform the deep CNN training. The experimental results on the developed model achieved precision between 91% and 98%, for separate class tests, on average 96.3%.

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Deep Neural Networks Based Recognition of Plant Diseases by Leaf Image Classification

Plant diseases cause great damage in agriculture, resulting in significant yield losses. The recent expansion of deep learning methods has found its application in plant disease detection, offering a robust tool with highly accurate results. The current limitations and shortcomings of existing plant disease detection models are presented and discussed in this paper. Furthermore, a new dataset containing 79,265 images was introduced with the aim to become the largest dataset containing leaf images. Images were taken in various weather conditions, at different angles, and daylight hours with an inconsistent background mimicking practical situations. Two approaches were used to augment the number of images in the dataset: traditional augmentation methods and state-of-the-art style generative adversarial networks. Several experiments were conducted to test the impact of training in a controlled environment and usage in real-life situations to accurately identify plant diseases in a complex background and in various conditions including the detection of multiple diseases in a single leaf. Finally, a novel two-stage architecture of a neural network was proposed for plant disease classification focused on a real environment. The trained model achieved an accuracy of 93.67%.

Solving Current Limitations of Deep Learning Based Approaches for Plant Disease Detection

Assessing the success of e-government systems

In the interest of recent accomplishments in the development of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for face detection and recognition tasks, a new deep learning based face recognition attendance system is proposed in this paper. The entire process of developing a face recognition model is described in detail. This model is composed of several essential steps developed using today's most advanced techniques: CNN cascade for face detection and CNN for generating face embeddings. The primary goal of this research was the practical employment of these state-of-the-art deep learning approaches for face recognition tasks. Due to the fact that CNNs achieve the best results for larger datasets, which is not the case in production environment, the main challenge was applying these methods on smaller datasets. A new approach for image augmentation for face recognition tasks is proposed. The overall accuracy was 95.02% on a small dataset of the original face images of employees in the real-time environment. The proposed face recognition model could be integrated in another system with or without some minor alternations as a supporting or a main component for monitoring purposes.

FaceTime — Deep learning based face recognition attendance system

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Darko Stefanovic

Papers

Deep Neural Networks Based Recognition of Plant Diseases by Leaf Image Classification

Solving Current Limitations of Deep Learning Based Approaches for Plant Disease Detection

Assessing the success of e-government systems

FaceTime — Deep learning based face recognition attendance system

Business Process Mining Application: A Literature Review