Feature aggregation for nutrient deficiency identification in chili based on machine learning

Abstract

Macronutrient deficiency inhibits the growth and development of chili plants. One of the non-destructive methods that plays a role in processing plant image data based on specific characteristics is computer vision. This study uses 5166 image data after augmentation process for six plant health conditions. But the analysis of one feature cannot represent plant health condition. Therefore, a careful combination of features is required. This study combines three types of features with HSV and RGB for color, GLCM and LBP for texture, and Hu moments and centroid distance for shapes. Each feature and its combination are trained and tested using the same MLP architecture. The combination of RGB, GLCM, Hu moments, and Distance of centroid features results the best performance. In addition, this study compares the MLP architecture used with previous studies such as SVM, Random Forest Technique, Naive Bayes, and CNN. CNN produced the best performance, followed by SVM and MLP, with accuracy reaching 97.76%, 90.55% and 89.70%, respectively. Although MLP has lower accuracy than CNN, the model for identifying plant health conditions has a reasonably good success rate to be applied in a simple agricultural environment.