Trained resnet-50 with one-cycle-policy for plant disease finegrained classification using fastai.
The model is capable of classifying a total of 14 crop classes and beated the previous models with an accuracy of 99.73% within 1.6 hr of training on a Tesla P4 instance.
The custom dataset is consisted of 38 classes from PlantVillage dataset and 1 background class from Stanford's open dataset of background images - DAGS, finally this was divided into a train-validation ratio of 80:20