The document presents a study on classifying rice leaf diseases using convolutional neural networks (CNN) with transfer learning. Key points:
- The study developed a CNN model based on VGG-16 architecture to classify rice leaf diseases like blast, blight, and brown spot from a dataset of 1649 disease leaf images and 507 healthy leaf images.
- Transfer learning was used by keeping the earlier layers of pre-trained VGG-16 unchanged and fine-tuning the later layers for the new dataset, since the dataset was small.
- The proposed CNN model with transfer learning achieved a test accuracy of 92.46%, while a CNN model developed from scratch without transfer learning achieved only 74% accuracy, highlighting the benefit of