Nutrispace: A novel color space to enhance deep learning based early detection of cucurbits nutritional deficiency

Nabil Anan Orka, Ehtashamul Haque, M. Nazim Uddin, Tofael Ahamed

Abstract: Highlights•Nutrispace enhances early plant nutritional stress detection in leaf images.•Outperformed traditional color spaces in 22 out of 24 evaluation tests.•Achieved up to 10% higher accuracy than RGB.•Best performance at higher resolutions, achieving over 90% test accuracy.•Published a new dataset focusing on early nutrient deficiencies in cucurbits.