Automated Image Capturing System for Deep Learning-based Tomato Plant Leaf Disease Detection and Recognition

Smart farming system using necessary infrastructure is an innovative technology that helps improve the quality and quantity of agricultural production in the country including tomato. Since tomato plant farming take considerations from various variables such as environment, soil, and amount of sunlight, existence of diseases cannot be avoided. The recent advances in computer vision made possible by deep learning has paved the way for camera-assisted disease diagnosis for tomato. This study developed the innovative solution that provides efficient disease detection in tomato plants. A motor-controlled image capturing box was made to capture four sides of every tomato plant to detect and recognize leaf diseases. A specific breed of tomato which is Diamante Max was used as the test subject. The system was designed to identify the diseases namely Phoma Rot, Leaf Miner, and Target Spot. Using dataset of 4,923 images of diseased and healthy tomato plant leaves collected under controlled conditions, we train a deep convolutional neural network to identify three diseases or absence thereof. The system used Convolutional Neural Network to identify which of the tomato diseases is present on the monitored tomato plants. The F-RCNN trained anomaly detection model produced a confidence score of 80 % while the Transfer Learning disease recognition model achieves an accuracy of 95.75 %. The automated image capturing system was implemented in actual and registered a 91.67 % accuracy in the recognition of the tomato plant leaf diseases.