Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Vol 19, No 3: September 2020

Rice false smut detection based on faster R-CNN

Prabira Kumar Sethy (Sambalpur University)
Nalini Kanta Barpanda (Sambalpur University)
Amiya Kumar Rath (Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology)
Santi Kumari Behera (Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Sep 2020

Abstract

Rice false smut is one of the most dangerous diseases in rice at the ripening phase caused by Ustilaginoidea Virens. It is one of the most important grain diseases in rice production worldwide. Its epidemics not only lead to yield loss but also reduce grain quality because of multiple mycotoxins generated by the causative pathogen. The pathogen infects developing spikelets and specifically converts individual grain into rice false smut ball. Rice false smut balls seem to be randomly formed in some grains on a panicle of a plant in the paddy field. In this study, we suggest a novel approach for the detection of rice false smut based on faster R-CNN. The process of faster R-CNN comprises regional proposal generation and object detection. The both tasks are done in same convolutional network. Because of such design it is faster for object detection. The faster R-CNN is able to detect the RFS using rectangular labelling from on-field images. The proposed approach is the initial steps to make a prototype for the automatic detection of RFS.

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