CNN-based Indian medicinal leaf type identification and medical use recommendation

Medicinal leaves are playing a vital role in our everyday life. There are an enormous amount of species present in the world. Identification of each type would be a tedious task. Using image processing technology, we can overcome this problem by providing computer vision with the help of a convolution neural network (CNN). The objective of this research is to find out the best CNN model that helps in classifying the plant leaf species and identifying its category. In this research work, the proposed basic CNN model consisting of four convolution layers uses ten different medicinal leaf species each belonging to two categories providing an accuracy of 96.88%.