VGG-16 based Deep Learning Approach for Plant Species Detection

Automated plant species detection has gained interest due to the potential benefits in agriculture to significantly increase crop yields, decrease the use of chemicals, and promote sustainable agriculture practices. A deep learning model, for plant species identification is a promising approach. This paper presents a condensed version of the VGG-16 deep learning model for identifying plant species. The original VGG-16 model's complexity and computational overhead are minimized by lowering the number of convolutional layers, which lowers the amount of parameters and calculations needed while keeping a high level of accuracy in the identification of various plant species. The streamlined VGG-16 model obtains an improved accuracy rate in categorizing distinct plant species after being trained on a big dataset of plant species that includes a variety of images of different plants. The condensed VGG-16 model offers a viable method for precise and effective plant species identification. This study's methodology and results advances the area of plant species detection by offering a deeper learning model that is more effective and useful and can be used on devices with limited resources.