“…Similarly, advanced imaging techniques including hyperspectral [ 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 ] and multispectral imaging [ 8 ] have also been used for plant/leaf disease identification. However, after the evolution of deep learning (DL), many state-of-the-art architectures, including AlexNet [ 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 ], Visual Geometry Group (VGG) [ 10 , 11 , 13 , 15 , 16 ], DenseNet [ 16 ], Inception-v4 [ 16 ] and ResNet [ 11 , 13 , 14 , 16 ], got promising results for the classification of plant disease. In this regard, several studies proved the significance of deep learning-based methods as compared to the traditional ML techniques.…”