Artificial intelligence could help farmers diagnose crop diseases
Tuesday, October 4, 2016 - 06:01
in Biology & Nature
A network of computers fed a large image dataset can learn to recognize specific plant diseases with a high degree of accuracy, potentially paving the way for field-based crop-disease identification using smartphones, according to a team of researchers at Penn State and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), in Lausanne, Switzerland.