In Bangladesh, eggplant is a widely grown crop that is vital to the
country’s food security. The vegetable is consumed on a regular basis
by the majority of people. Since Bangladesh’s economy is heavily reliant
on agriculture, eggplant growing might help the country’s economy and
productivity flourish more efficiently. It provides several health
benefits, including reducing cancer risk, blood sugar control, heart
health, eye health, and others. Although eggplant is a valuable crop, it
is subject to severe diseases that reduce its productivity. It’s hard
to detect those diseases manually and needs a lot of time and hard work.
So, we introduce an agricultural and medical expert system based on
machine vision that analyzes a picture acquired with a smartphone or
portable device and classifies diseases to assist farmers in resolving
the issue. We studied and used a convolutional neural network
(CNN)-based transfer learning approach for identifying eggplant diseases
in this paper. We have used various transfer learning models such as
DenseNet201, Xception, and ResNet152V2. DenseNet201 had the highest
accuracy of these models with 99.06%.