Analysis of RGB Plant Images to Identify Root Rot Disease in Korean Ginseng Plants Using Deep Learning

Ginseng is an important medicinal plant in Korea. The roots of the ginseng plant have medicinal properties; thus, it is very important to maintain the quality of ginseng roots. Root rot disease is a major disease that affects the quality of ginseng roots. It is important to predict this disease before it causes severe damage to the plants. Hence, there is a need for a non-destructive method to identify root rot disease in ginseng plants. In this paper, a method to identify the root rot disease by analyzing the RGB plant images using image processing and deep learning is proposed. Initially, plant segmentation is performed, and then the noise regions are removed in the plant images. These images are given as input to the proposed linear deep learning model to identify root rot disease in ginseng plants. Transfer learning models are also applied to these images. The performance of the proposed method is promising in identifying root rot disease.