My solution to an hackathon hosted on Zindi.africa by IndabaX Uganda
# Passion-Fruit-Disease-Detection
Passion fruit pests and diseases in Uganda lead to reduced yields and decreased investment in farming over time. Most Ugandan farmers (including passion fruit farmers) are smallholder farmers from low-income households, and do not have sufficient information and means to combat these challenges. Without the required knowledge about the health of their crops, farmers cannot intervene promptly to avoid devastating losses.
The Marconi Society Machine Learning Laboratory at Makerere University is addressing the lack of a reliable, timely diagnostic platform for passion fruit diseases by developing a low-cost hand-held diagnostic device (based on the Raspberry Pi) making use of state-of-the-art machine learning techniques.
## Type of Task
The challenge requires that these we classify the disease status of a plant given an image of a passion fruit.
The task is a Computer Vision task and unstructured.
The model implement `fastai` library. (version 2.4.1 preferably)
## Dataset
The competition dataset could be find on:
zindi.africa
## Evaluation Metric
The evaluation metric used is **Accuracy**
## Leaderboard Score
At the close of the hackathon,
Rank - **7th out of 12**
Ranked Private Leaderboard score - 0.974789915966387
Best Private Leaderboard score (unselected) - 0.980392156862745 (code uploaded)