Lesion Detection on Leaves using Class Activation Maps
Abstract: Lesion detection on plant leaves is a critical task in plant pathology and agricultural research. Identifying lesions enables assessing the severity of plant diseases and making informed decisions regarding disease control measures and treatment strategies. To detect lesions, there are studies that propose well-known object detectors. However, training object detectors to detect small objects such as lesions can be problematic. In this study, we propose a method for lesion detection on plant leaves utilizing class activation maps generated by a ResNet-18 classifier. In the test set, we achieved a 0.45 success rate in predicting the locations of lesions in leaves. Our study presents a novel approach for lesion detection on plant leaves by utilizing CAMs generated by a ResNet classifier while eliminating the need for a lesion annotation process.
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