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AI DEEP DRIVEN FRAMEWORK FOR AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF PLANT SPECIES FROM LEAF IMAGES USING TRANSFER LEARNING TECHNIQUES

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Medha V
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Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangalore, India
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Abstract
Accurate plant species identification is important for biodiversity documentation, agriculture, forestry, ecological monitoring, and educational applications. Conventional identification commonly depends on expert knowledge and manual comparison of leaf morphology, which can be slow and difficult when species have similar visual characteristics or when images are captured under uncontrolled field conditions. This paper proposes an AI Deep Driven framework for automated identification and classification of plant species from leaf images using transfer learning techniques. The framework combines image acquisition, preprocessing, leaf-region enhancement, data augmentation, transfer learning, fine-tuning, confidence estimation, and class-wise evaluation in a single pipeline. Pre-trained convolutional neural network architectures such as ResNet50, EfficientNet, and MobileNet are considered as feature-learning backbones, with a task-specific classification head adapted to the target plant-species classes. The use of transfer learning reduces the need to train a deep network entirely from scratch and enables reuse of general visual representations learned from large image collections. The proposed methodology is designed to address variations in illumination, scale, orientation, background, blur, and intra-species leaf appearance. LeafSnap is considered as a suitable benchmark because it contains laboratory and field images covering 185 tree species, including 23,147 laboratory images and 7,719 field images. The framework evaluates performance using accuracy, precision, recall, macro F1-score, confusion matrix, and inference time. This paper presents the architecture, methodology, evaluation protocol, limitations, and future scope of the proposed system. Numerical experimental results are intentionally not fabricated; they should be populated after the proposed models are trained and tested on the selected dataset.

 
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Plant Species Identification Leaf Image Classification Deep Learning Transfer Learning Convolutional Neural Network ResNet50 EfficientNet MobileNet Computer Vision Biodiversity.
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V, M. (2026). AI Deep Driven Framework for Automated Identification and Classification of Plant Species from Leaf Images Using Transfer Learning Techniques. International Journal of Science, Strategic Management and Technology, 02(8), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.55041/ijsmt.v2i8.047

V, Medha. "AI Deep Driven Framework for Automated Identification and Classification of Plant Species from Leaf Images Using Transfer Learning Techniques." International Journal of Science, Strategic Management and Technology, vol. 02, no. 8, 2026, pp. 1-9. doi:https://doi.org/10.55041/ijsmt.v2i8.047.

V, Medha. "AI Deep Driven Framework for Automated Identification and Classification of Plant Species from Leaf Images Using Transfer Learning Techniques." International Journal of Science, Strategic Management and Technology 02, no. 8 (2026): 1-9. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.55041/ijsmt.v2i8.047.

References
[1] N. Kumar, P. N. Belhumeur, A. Biswas, D. W. Jacobs, W. J. Kress, I. C. Lopez, and J. V. B. Soares, “Leafsnap: A Computer Vision System for Automatic Plant Species Identification,” in Proc. 12th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2012.

[2] S. P. Mohanty, D. P. Hughes, and M. Salathé, “Using Deep Learning for Image-Based Plant Disease Detection,” Frontiers in Plant Science, vol. 7, p. 1419, 2016, doi: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01419.

[3] J. Yosinski, J. Clune, Y. Bengio, and H. Lipson, “How transferable are features in deep neural networks?” in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 27, 2014, pp. 3320–3328.

[4] K. He, X. Zhang, S. Ren, and J. Sun, “Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition,” in Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2016, pp. 770–778.

[5] M. Tan and Q. V. Le, “EfficientNet: Rethinking Model Scaling for Convolutional Neural Networks,” in Proc. 36th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2019, pp. 6105–6114.

[6] A. G. Howard et al., “MobileNets: Efficient Convolutional Neural Networks for Mobile Vision Applications,” arXiv:1704.04861, 2017.

[7] K. Simonyan and A. Zisserman, “Very Deep Convolutional Networks for Large-Scale Image Recognition,” arXiv:1409.1556, 2014.

[8] LeafSnap, “Leafsnap Dataset,” Columbia University, University of Maryland, and Smithsonian Institution. Dataset documentation and image collection.

[9] M. S. S. S. et al., “Plant Species Identification Using Computer Vision Techniques: A Systematic Literature Review,” systematic review of leaf-image recognition datasets and methods, 2018.

[10] S. Zhang, C. Zhang, and Z. Wang, “Plant Leaf Recognition Based on Deep Learning and Image Processing,” representative work illustrating CNN-based plant recognition approaches.
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