IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI)
Vol 9, No 2: June 2020

Nutrient deficiency detection in Maize (Zea mays L.) leaves using image processing

Nurbaity Sabri (Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Melaka)
Nurul Shafekah Kassim (Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Melaka)
Shafaf Ibrahim (Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Melaka)
Rosniza Roslan (Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Melaka)
Nur Nabilah Abu Mangshor (Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Melaka)
Zaidah Ibrahim (Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Melaka)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Jun 2020

Abstract

Maize is one of the world's leading food supplies. Therefore, the crop's production must continue to reproduce to fulfill the market demand. Maize is an active feeder, therefore, it need to be adequately supplied with nutrients. The healthy plants will be in deep green color to indicate it consist of adequate nutrient. Current practice to identify the nutrient deficiency on maize leaf is throught a laboratory test. It is time consuming and required agriculture knowledge. Therefore, an image processing approach has been done to improve the laboratory test and eliminate a human error in identification process. The purpose of this research is to help agriculturist, farmers and researchers to identify the type of maize nutrient deficiency to determine an action to be taken. This research using image processing techniques to determine the type of nutrient deficiency that occurs on the plant leaf. A combination of Gray-Level Co-Occurrence Matrix (GLCM), hu-histogram and color histogram has been used as a parameter for further classification process. Random forest technique was used as classifiers manage to achive 78.35% of accuracy. It shows random forest is a suitable classifier for nutrient deficiency detection in maize leaves. More machine learning algorithm will be tested to increase current accuracy.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJAI

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT Engineering

Description

IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI) publishes articles in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). The scope covers all artificial intelligence area and its application in the following topics: neural networks; fuzzy logic; simulated biological evolution algorithms (like ...