Hamna Waheed

Hamna Waheed

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Latest Publications

  • Open Access

    A Mobile-Based System for Detecting Ginger Leaf Disorders Using Deep Learning

    by Hamna Waheed, Waseem Akram, Saif Ul Islam, Abdul Hadi, Jalil Boudjadar, Noureen Zafar

    The agriculture sector plays a crucial role in supplying nutritious and high-quality food. Plant disorders significantly impact crop productivity, resulting in an annual loss of 33%. The early and accurate detection of plant disorders is a difficult task for farmers and requires specialized knowledge, significant effort, and labor. In this context, smart devices and advanced artificial intelligence techniques have significant potential to pave the way toward sustainable and smart agriculture. This paper presents a deep learning-based android system that can diagnose ginger plant disorders such as soft rot disease, pest patterns, and nutritional deficiencies. To achieve this, state-of-the-art deep learning models were trained on a real dataset of 4,394 ginger leaf images with diverse backgrounds. The trained models were then integrated into an Android-based mobile application that takes ginger leaf images as input and performs the real-time detection of crop disorders. The proposed system shows promising results in terms of accuracy, precision, recall, confusion matrices, computational cost, Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC), mAP, and F1-score.


  • Open Access

    Deep Learning Based Disease, Pest Pattern and Nutritional Deficiency Detection System for “Zingiberaceae” Crop

    by Hamna Waheed, Noureen Zafar, Waseem Akram, Awais Manzoor, Abdullah Gani, Saif Ul Islam

    Plants’ diseases cannot be avoided because of unpredictable climate patterns and environmental changes. The plants like ginger get affected by various pests, conditions, and nutritional deficiencies. Therefore, it is essential to identify such causes early and perform the cure to get the desired production rate. Deep learning-based methods are helpful for the identification and classification of problems in this domain. This paper presents deep artificial neural network and deep learning-based methods for the early detection of diseases, pest patterns, and nutritional deficiencies. We have used a real-field dataset consisting of healthy and affected ginger plant leaves. The results show that the convolutional neural network (CNN) has achieved the highest accuracy of 99% for disease rhizomes detection. For pest pattern leaves, VGG-16 models showed the highest accuracy of 96%. For nutritional deficiency-affected leaves, ANN has achieved the highest accuracy (96%). The experimental results achieved are comparable with other existing techniques in the literature. In addition, the results demonstrated the potential in improving the yield of ginger using the proposed disease detection methods and an essential consideration for the design of real-time disease detection applications. However, the results are specific to the dataset used in this work and may yield different results for the other datasets.