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Control of diseases affecting plants is very important as it relates to the issue of food security, which is a very serious threat on human life. According to the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), most of the maize diseases are caused by mildew. There are more than fifty different mildew diseases affecting maize. The diseases that infect plants go through different stages of the degree of infection. Therefore, determining the degree of injury helps decision-makers spend money on controlling the disease properly. The common method used to determine the degree of injury is visual examination. It’s known that visual examination leaves a large area for error. It is unable to determine the degree of injury with high accuracy as a percentage for example. In this study, we used two methods of segmentation to determine the injury ratio in maize leaves. The methodology of segmentation depends on the Color Threshold Application (CTA) and K-mean clustering. For comparison between methods of segmentation, different color spaces (RGB, HSV, YC b C r , and L*a*b*) have been used. The results obtained indicate that the color threshold segmentation is more efficient than K-means clustering in terms of determining the injury ratio, especially with HSV color space. While it contrary to the RGB color model because it gives the worst result.

Maize Leaf Images Segmentation Using Color Threshold and K-means Clustering Methods to Identify the Percentage of the Affected Areas