Million Meshesha
School of Information Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
Publications
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Research Article
Identification of Selected Ethiopian Traditional Medicinal Plants Using Digital Image Processing and Deep Learning Techniques
Author(s): Habtamu Alebel*, Million Meshesha, Wabi Jifara and Girma Asefa
Ethiopia is rich in biodiversity, and its vast landscape offers a variety of medicinal plants with significant cultural and therapeutic importance. The study is conducted to identify medicinal plants using image processing and deep learning techniques. This study explores both pre-trained models (such as VGG-16 and ResNet-50) and CNN sequential for creating models from scratch. Experimental results show that the Medicinal Plant Identification (MPI) model constructed from scratch performs better with test accuracy of 99.90% and an F-score of 99.00% performance as compared to pre-trained models such as VGG-16 and ResNet-50. The proposed model achieves high accuracy in image classification by utilizing multiple convolutional layers that capture fine- grained patterns in images... Read More»

