Comparison of CNN-based deep learning architectures for rice diseases classification

Although convolutional neural network (CNN) paradigms have expanded to transfer learning and ensemble models from original individual CNN architectures, few studies have focused on the performance comparison of the applicability of these techniques in detecting and localizing rice diseases. Moreover, most CNN-based rice disease detection studies only considered a small number of diseases in their experiments. Both these shortcomings were addressed in this study. In this study, a rice disease classification comparison of six CNN-based deep-learning architectures (DenseNet121, Inceptionv3, MobileNetV2, resNext101, Resnet152V, and Seresnext101) was conducted using a database of nine of the most epidemic rice diseases in Bangladesh. In addition, we applied a transfer learning approach to DenseNet121, MobileNetV2, Resnet152V, Seresnext101, and an ensemble model called DEX (Densenet121, EfficientNetB7,…