The DeepDetect project will use machine learning to deliver accurate, location-specific disease diagnoses to farmers on their smartphones.<\/p>\n
“By integrating farmer feedback from the outset, we will ensure that this technology is grounded in real-world needs and challenges,” said Edore Akpokodje, computer science lecturer at Aberystwyth University.<\/p>\n
The technology also has the potential for wider application across other crops, he said.<\/p>\n
The project aims to reduce the environmental and financial burden of preventive spraying, which the researchers said currently cost Welsh farmers up to \u00a35.27m annually.<\/p>\n
Potatoes are a vital crop globally and in Wales over 17,000 hectares are dedicated to potato farming.<\/p>\n
The team plans to create an AI-powered prototype using image datasets of healthy and diseased potato leaves.<\/p>\n
It will then refine the model and eventually the team hopes to create a national early warning system for potato blight, with potential to expand the technology to other crops and regions in the future.<\/p>\n
“Potatoes are the fourth most important staple crop globally, and optimal production is essential for a growing global population,” Aiswarya Girija from the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences at Aberystwyth University said.<\/p>\n
“Potato blight is therefore not just a farming issue – it’s a food security issue.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The DeepDetect project will use machine learning to deliver accurate, location-specific disease diagnoses to farmers on their smartphones.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-15275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}