CNN Implementation for Severity Levels of Potato Blight Disease

In the past, numerous studies have been done on potatoes and different authors have performed research on different diseases of potatoes. The present study has targeted only one potato disease, named potato blight and further 5 different severity levels of the disease have been taken into consideration. The severity levels in percentage are 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-80, and 81-100. The CNN implementation has been performed on the 6 classes, out of these 5 classes are disease severity levels and one class belongs to healthy potatoes. The total number of images is 9600 and the accuracy achieved is 96.29% and the macro average is 86.625%. In the nearer future, more improvements can be done in the accuracy by using hybrid algorithms as well as by increasing the dataset size.