Combinational feature approach: Performance improvement for image processing based leaf disease classification

Plant disease is main reason of agricultural crops production losses. Leaf disease in plant occurs due to fungai, virus and bacterias. Image contains various important features which is used in classification. In this paper author initially detect disease then classify disease using extracted features. It takes five diseased leaves (Black rot, Black Measles, Leaf blight, Septoria leaf spot, Bacterial spot) and healthy leaf images then identify leaf is diseased or healthy then if leaf is diseased then classify type of disease. Color features mean, standard deviation, skewness and kurtosis computed then Region based shape feature calculated to identify the size of spots. Texture feature calculated using gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) which identifies texture of image using distance and 45° angle variation in GLCM. Extracted features sent to trained feed forward neural network and classify diseased with color, shape and texture feature individually and combination of all features then observe that combination of color, shape and texture feature improve the performance of classification accuracy.