A Feature Extraction Method Based on Convolutional Autoencoder for Plant Leaves Classification

In this research, we present an approach based on Convolutional Autoencoder (CAE) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) for leaves classification of different trees. While previous approaches relied on image processing and manual feature extraction, the proposed approach operates directly on the image pixels, without any preprocessing. Firstly, we use multiple layers of CAE to learn the features of leaf image dataset. Secondly, the extracted features were used to train a linear classifier based on SVM. Experimental results show that the classifiers using these features can improve their predictive value, reaching an accuracy rate of 94.74 %.