Influencing factors analysis in pear disease recognition using deep learning

Influencing factors analysis plays an important role in plant disease identification. This paper explores the key influencing factors and severity recognition of pear diseases using deep learning based on our established pear disease database (PDD2018), which contains 4944 pieces of diseased leaves. Using the deep learning neural networks, including VGG16, Inception V3, ResNet50 and ResNet101, we developed a “DL network + resolution” scheme that can be used in influencing factors analysis and diseases recognition at six different levels. The experimental results demonstrated that the resolution is directly proportional to disease recognition accuracy and training time and the recognition accuracies for pear diseases are up to 99.44%,98.43%, and 97.67% for Septoria piricola (SP), Alternaria alternate (AA), and Gymnosporangium haracannum (GYM), respectively. The results also shown that a forward suggestion on disease sample collection can significantly reduce the false recognition accuracy.