Various pest-affected and
citrus diseases of lemon leaf have become very severe in the temperate
weather areas of southeast Asian countries. As a result, the cultivation
of lemon and other citrus fruits has been badly affected. An efficient
classification of these kinds of diseases can decrease the rate of loss
by choosing proper pesticides in time. In this paper, we have applied
some Transfer Learning-based Deep Learning models (DenseNet-201,
ResNet-50, ResNet-152V2, and Xception) for a cost-effective
classification of lemon leaf diseases. We have used our image dataset
that is collected from the field level. Among the models we have used,
Xception achieved a very higher overall accuracy of 94.34% and
outperformed the other previous works.