Identification and localization of grape diseased leaf images captured by UAV based on CNN

In order to realize the acquisition of plant leaf images by agricultural drones and perform regional segmentation and disease recognition on leaf cluster images over a wide area, this paper takes grape leaves as an example and designs a set of processing procedures combining the improved U-net and VGG-19 networks. This paper aims to address the difficulty of obtaining target leaves for recognition in complex environments due to the presence of multiple invalid leaves. First, the feature extraction process is performed on the training and validation datasets to reduce the input parameters of the network and increase the training speed. Second, the test data is divided into three datasets: low-light, jitter interference, and two-factor combination. After recovery processing, the Multi-fusion U-net network is fed to locate diseased leaves. Finally, the improved VGG-19 network was used again to locate and identify the disease. Experimental results show that the proposed procedure achieves satisfactory performance in UAV image processing. The average accuracy of segmentation reaches 71.91%, and the identification rate of disease location is increased by 12.33% after segmentation, which provides a strong practical basis for the implementation of unmanned smart ecological farms.