A Comparative Analysis of Deep Learning Parameters for Enhanced Detection of Yellow Rust in Wheat

Abstract

Wheat, one of the most important food sources in human history, is one of the most important cereal crops produced and consumed in our country. However, if diseases such as yellowpas, which is one of the risk factors in wheat production, cannot be detected in a timely and accurate manner, situations such as decreased production may be encountered. For this reason, it is more advantageous to use decision support systems based on deep learning in the detection and classification of diseases in agricultural products instead of experts who perform the processes in a longer time and have a higher error rate. In this study, the effects of the number of layers, activation function and optimization algorithm variables on the classification of deep learning models used for the classification of yellow rust disease in wheat were examined. As a result of the study, the highest success value was obtained with 97.36% accuracy when using a 5-layer CNN model using Leaky ReLU activation function and Nadam optimization algorithm.