An Efficient Mobile Application for Identification of Immunity Boosting Medicinal Plants using Shape Descriptor Algorithm

Abstract

In the Covid-19 pandemic situation, the world is looking for immunity-boosting techniques for fighting against coronavirus. Every plant is medicine in one or another way, but Ayurveda explains the uses of plant-based medicines and immunity boosters for specific requirements of the human body. To help Ayurveda, botanists are trying to identify more species of medicinal immunity-boosting plants by evaluating the characteristics of the leaf. For a normal person, detecting immunity-boosting plants is a difficult task. Deep learning networks provide highly accurate results in image processing. In the medicinal plant analysis, many leaves are like each other. So, the direct analysis of leaf images using the deep learning network causes many issues for medicinal plant identification. Hence, keeping the requirement of a method at large to help all human beings, the proposed leaf shape descriptor with the deep learning-based mobile application is developed for the identification of immunity-boosting medicinal plants using a smartphone. SDAMPI algorithm explained numerical descriptor generation for closed shapes. This mobile application achieved 96%accuracy for the 64 × 64 sized images.

Keywords: Bigram; COVID-19; Deep learning; Medicinal plants; Mobile app; Shape descriptor.

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The Shape Descriptor generation for a single leaf

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Medicinal plants used in the application

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Architecture of SDAMPI based Deep Learning Network

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Architecture of bigram and deep learning-based prediction

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Descriptor identification method using the deep learning

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The screenshots of the mobile application

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The performance evaluation of the proposed mobile application

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Details of result analysis of this application

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Comparison between different mobile applications plant detection accuracy