“…A number of recent studies have successfully used machine learning approaches, particularly CNNs, to detect plant diseases in images that can be acquired without a specialized camera (standard red–green–blue or RGB photos). Many studies have relied on the expert‐curated set of over 50,000 plant disease images released through PlantVillage (described by Hughes and Salathe, 2016; utilized by Mohanty et al, 2016; Islam et al, 2017; Wang et al, 2017; Barbedo 2018; Ferentinos, 2018; Too et al, 2019; Zhang et al, 2018). Due to its size and scope, this dataset has become a benchmark for new approaches in plant disease detection, analogous to the large datasets such as COCO (Lin et al, 2014) or ImageNet (Deng et al, 2009) used for many other computer vision tasks.…”