AI and Neural Network-Based Approach for Paddy Disease Identification and Classification

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to use the artificial intelligence features of the ResNet50 architecture to provide a novel method of paddy disease identification. Farmers face numerous problems in raising paddy as its yield is affected by various factors like changing biodiversity, environment, weather pests, and disease. Traditional methods combined with smart farming, innovation, tools, and technology are needed for the mass production of food Here we develop a model using a convolutional neural network, ResNet50 that identifies disease in paddy leaf. The proposed model paddy disease identification model will give more precise results. The paddy disease identification model may be transformed into TensorFlow Lite (TFLite), which can be used for Android phones and drone applications, among other things. The Paddy model in this article obtained a training accuracy of almost 99% and a test accuracy of 92.83% when it was trained on 13,876 well-defined datasets. The loss function of 0.0014 at 100 epochs demonstrated that the model was effectively trained using ResNet50.