Hybrid Heuristic Optimization of Deep Learning Models for Robust Plant Disease Detection

Plant diseases directly affect farm output by lowering grain, fruit, and vegetable quality, threatening global food security. Thus, farmers inspect plant leaves with their eyes. Plant leaf monitoring is unreliable and error-prone. A multitude of deep learning algorithms have been developed to detect plant leaf diseases; however, most rely on low-resolution photos utilizing convolutional neural nets (CNNs). This research seeks to create an improved nine-layer the CNN network model for the accurate classification of leaf-related illnesses. A contrast enhancement approach is used to pre-process plant leaf pictures. Following binary thresholding, the pre-processed pictures are separated into leaf images and abnormality segmented using the "Enhanced U-Net (EU-Net)" approach. A Multilevel Feature Fusion Network Convolutional Neural Network (MFFN-CNN) is employed to categorize illnesses of leaves based on segmented images. The "Hybrid Leader Cat Swarm Optimization(HLCSO)" method improves U-Net parameter optimization. The effectiveness of the leaf diagnostic model is demonstrated experimentally employing a variety of factors through the use of numerous baseline approaches.