IIT Mandi develops an AI-based Model for disease detection in potato crops using photos of leaves

 Who: IIT Mandi (Prof. Srikant Srivastava, School of Computing and Electrical Engineering  ) and CSIR's laboratory Central Potato Research Institute, Shimla

What: AI-based computational model: mask-region based convolutional neural network architecture

Feature: Can be integrated with smart mobile phone

How: By taking images of leaves and mapping with the existing data

Reference: Published in the Journal of Plant Phenomics 

Background: The deadliest disease is Potato Blight