Identification of Prosopis Juliflora using Deep Learning Techniques

Prosopis Juliflora (Seemai karuvelam) is a biological nightmare. The reason behind Prosopis Juliflora is vilified as an invasive tree is, it absorbs the underground water present around it and hence the intake of water by other plants that survive near them is very less. This leads to the decease of other plants, and reduction in the level of groundwater. It causes dermatitis when used as firewood. The pod consumption over long periods of time will result in death of cattle. Identifying them would help us to easily locate and destroy them. Deep learning techniques is used to identify Prosopis Juliflora. Currently, the plant is identified and uprooted manually, and this paper helps to automate this process. An extensive dataset containing Prosopis Juliflora, and other plants is collected. It is trained and validated using deep learning models such as ResNet-50 and Custom CNN Model.