Time Efficient Training of Progressive Generative Adversarial Network using Depthwise Separable Convolution and Super Resolution Generative Adversarial Network

Generative Adversarial Networks have been employed successfully to generate high-resolution augmented images of size 1024^2. Although the augmented images generated are unprecedented, the training time of the model is exceptionally high. Conventional GAN requires training of both Discriminator as well as the Generator. In Progressive GAN, which is the current state-of-the-art GAN for image augmentation, instead of training the GAN all at once, a new concept of progressing growing of Discriminator and Generator simultaneously, was proposed. Although the lower stages such as 4x4 and 8x8 train rather quickly, the later stages consume a tremendous amount of time which could take days to finish the model training. In our paper, we propose a novel pipeline that combines Progressive GAN with slight modifications and Super Resolution GAN. Super Resolution GAN up samples low-resolution images to high-resolution images which can prove to be a useful resource to reduce the training time exponentially.

Plant Disease Detection Using Image Processing and Machine Learning

One of the important and tedious task in agricultural practices is the detection of the disease on crops. It requires huge time as well as skilled labor. This paper proposes a smart and efficient technique for detection of crop disease which uses computer vision and machine learning techniques. The proposed system is able to detect 20 different diseases of 5 common plants with 93% accuracy.