Using deep learning for image-based plant disease detection

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 7, Issue September, 2016, Pages

  Mohanty, Sharada P ^a   Hughes, David P ^b,c   Salathé, Marcel ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crop diseases; Deep learning; Digital epidemiology; Machine learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84988564472     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01419     Document Type: Article

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