Applications of Computer Vision in Plant Pathology: A Survey

The real-time decision support system can enhance the crop or plant growth, therefore, increasing their productivity, quality, and economic value. This also helps us in serving the nature by supervising the plant growth in balancing the environment. Computer vision techniques have proven to play an important role in the number of applications like medical, defense, agriculture, remote sensing, business analysis, etc. The use of digital image processing methods for simulating the visual capability of the human being has proven to be a dynamic feature in smart or precision agriculture. This concept has provided with the automatic preventing and monitoring of plants, cultivation, disease management, water management etc. to increase the crop productivity and quality. In this paper, we have surveyed the number of articles that adopt the concept of computer vision and soft computing methods for the identification and classification of diseases from the leaf of the plant. Our aim is to present the state of the art of the concepts, applications, and theories associated with the digital image processing and soft computing methodologies. The various outcomes have been discussed separately.