Mobile-Based Deep Learning Models for Banana Diseases Detection

04/07/2020

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by   Sophia Sanga, et al.

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Smallholder farmers in Tanzania are challenged on the lack of tools for early detection of banana diseases. This study aimed at developing a mobile application for early detection of Fusarium wilt race 1 and black Sigatoka banana diseases using deep learning. We used a dataset of 3000 banana leaves images. We pre-trained our model on Resnet152 and Inceptionv3 Convolution Neural Network architectures. The Resnet152 achieved an accuracy of 99.2 Inceptionv3 an accuracy of 95.41 we chose Inceptionv3 since it has lower memory requirements compared to Resnet152. The mobile application on real environment detected the two diseases with a confidence level of 99 the potential in improving the yield of bananas by smallholder farmers using a tool for early detection of diseases.