A Deep Learning-based Approach for Banana Leaf Diseases Classification

Plant diseases are important factors as they result in serious reduction in quality and quantity of agriculture products. Therefore, early detection and diagnosis of these diseases are important. To this end, we propose a deep learning-based approach that automates the process of classifying banana leaves diseases. In particular, we make use of the LeNet architecture as a convolutional neural network to classify image data sets. The preliminary results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach even under challenging conditions such as illumination, complex background, different resolution, size, pose, and orientation of real scene images.