Meta-Learning for Few-Shot Plant Disease Detection

Foods

Wei Li¹  Liangzhe Chen¹  Xiaohui Cui² 

[1] School of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science & Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Media Design and Software Technology & Science Center for Future Foods, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China;School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China;

关键词: food security;    plant disease detection;    convolutional neural networks;    few-shot;    meta-learning;   

DOI  :  10.3390/foods10102441

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Plant diseases can harm crop growth, and the crop production has a deep impact on food. Although the existing works adopt Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to detect plant diseases such as Apple Scab and Squash Powdery mildew, those methods have limitations as they rely on a large amount of manually labeled data. Collecting enough labeled data is not often the case in practice because: plant pathogens are variable and farm environments make collecting data difficulty. Methods based on deep learning suffer from low accuracy and confidence when facing few-shot samples. In this paper, we propose local feature matching conditional neural adaptive processes (LFM-CNAPS) based on meta-learning that aims at detecting plant diseases of unseen categories with only a few annotated examples, and visualize input regions that are ‘important’ for predictions. To train our network, we contribute Miniplantdisease-Dataset that contains 26 plant species and 60 plant diseases. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that our proposed LFM-CNAPS method outperforms the existing methods.

【 授权许可】

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