Detection of unknown strawberry diseases based on OpenMatch and two-head network for continual learning.

For continual learning in the process of plant disease recognition it is necessary to first distinguish between unknown diseases from those of known diseases. This paper deals with two different but related deep learning techniques for the detection of unknown plant diseases; Open Set Recognition (OSR) and Out-of-Distribution (OoD) detection. Despite the significant progress in OSR, it is still premature to apply it to fine-grained recognition tasks without outlier exposure that a certain part of OoD data (also called known unknowns) are prepared for training.