A NOVEL APPROACH TO DETECT AND CLASSIFY LEAF DISEASES BASED ON IMAGE PROCESSING

In this paper, image processing techniques are used to detect the plant leaf diseases. The objective of this work is to implement image analysis & classification techniques for detection of leaf diseases and classification. The proposed framework consists of four parts. They are (1) Image preprocessing (2) Segmentation of the leaf using K-means clustering to determine the diseased areas (3) feature extraction & (4) Classification of diseases. Texture features are extracted using statistical Gray-Level Co-Occurrence Matrix (GLCM) features and classification is done using Support Vector Machine (SVM).