• Smart Media Journal
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.16-22
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• 2020

In this study, a neural network method performing both Detection and Classification of diseases and insects in paprika is proposed with Multi-Tasking U-net. Paprika on farms does not have a wide variety of diseases in this study, only two classes such as powdery mildew and mite, which occur relatively frequently are made as the targets. Aiming to this, a U-net is used as a backbone network, and the last layers of the encoder and the decoder of the U-net are utilized for classification and segmentation, respectively. As the result, the encoder of the U-net is shared for both of detection and classification. The training data are composed of 680 normal leaves, 450 mite-damaged leaves, and 370 powdery mildews. The test data are 130 normal leaves, 100 mite-damaged leaves, and 90 powdery mildews. Its test results shows 89% of recognition accuracy.