Research on Automatic Diagnostic Technology of Soybean Leaf Diseases Based on Improved Transfer Learning

Soybean diseases and insect pests are important factors that affect the output and quality of the soybean,thus,it is necessary to do correct inspection and diagnosis on them.For this reason,based on improved transfer learning,a classification method of the soybean leaf diseases was proposed in this paper.In detail,this method first removed the complicated background in images and cut apart leaves from the entire image;second,the data-augmented method was applied to amplify the separated leaf disease image dataset to reduce overfitting;at last,the automatically fine-tuning convolutional neural network （AutoTun） was adopted to classify the soybean leaf diseases.The proposed method respectively reached 94.23%,93.51% and 94.91% of validation accuracy rates on VGG-16,ResNet-34 and DenseNet-121,and it was compared with the traditional fine-tuning method of transfer learning.The results indicated that the proposed method had superior to the traditional transfer learning method.