Abstract

Downy and powdery mildews are the most serious diseases of the grapevine. A sustainable way to control these pathogens is the breeding and deployment of resistant grape cultivars. For breeding efforts to be effective, accurate quantification of the resistance phenotype is essential. In this paper, we present a computer-based image recognition, processing, and analysis technique for enhancing the detection and quantification of Plasmopara viticola and Erysiphe necator the causal agents of downy and powdery mildew, respectively. We propose a multi-step approach that utilizes background removal and Hue-Saturation-Value (HSV) masking as opposed to multi-faceted color channel breakdowns, photo texture evaluations, or classification-based algorithms for the detection of mildew. Our experimental results show that our method provides reliable results and fast performance.

Department(s)

Computer Science
Biology

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5220/0010583900810086

Rights Information

This article is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International(BY-NC-ND 4.0) license.

Keywords

Background removal, Downy Mildew, Grape leaf, HSV masking, Image analysis

Publication Date

1-1-2021

Journal Title

Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications, SIGMAP 2021

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