Recognition of Huanglongbing symptom based on deep convolutional neural network

Objective  To explore the capability of deploying deep learning to the detection of Huanglongbing (HLB) symptom inCitrus spp., and evaluate the classification accuracies of the classifiers.

Method  Two-class classifiers(I-2-C and M-2-C) and eight-class classifiers(I-8-C and M-8-C) were constructed using images of diseased leaves caused by HLB/non-HLB and healthy leaves based on convolutional neural networks and transfer learning.

Result  The overall classification performance of M-8-C stood out in all classifiers with accuracy of 93.7%, implying great capability in deep convolutional neural networks for classifying HLB symptoms. The mean F1 socres of I-8-C and M-8-C were 77.9% and 88.4% respectively, which were higher than those of I-2-C(56.3%) and M-2-C(52.5%). This indicated that subtyping symptoms could help improve the recognition ability of models. The slightly higher mean F1 score of M-8-C compared with I-8-C indicated that the eight-class model based on MobileNetV1 had better performance than the one based on InceptionV3. An optimized model, namely M-8f-C, was developed based on M-8-C and was successfully mounted on mobile phone. The field tests showed that M-8f-C was of decent performance under field conditions.

Conclusion  Classifier based on deep learning and transfer learning has high accuracy for recognizing HLB symptom leaves.