The invention discloses a 
machine vision based real-time diagnosis method and 
system of vegetable leaf diseases. The 
system comprises a 
disease image acquiring hardware part and a real-time diagnosis 
software part, wherein the image acquiring hardware part consists of a lighting box, a 
light source bracket, a 
light source, a round hole at the top of a box body, a 
digital camera, a camera fixing rod, an optical lens, a 
polarizer, a box body side door, an objective table and a computer. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring the symptom image of the 
leaf disease of vegetable to be detected; carrying out image treatment and scab division by utilizing real-time diagnosis 
software; acquiring the characteristic indexes of scab, such as color, texture and shape; and carrying out real-time diagnosis on the vegetable 
leaf disease by utilizing a 
disease identification model. The real-time diagnosis method and 
system can be directly used for detecting diseases in filed, plastic houses or greenhouses so as to achieve the rapid, stable and real-time diagnosis of various vegetable leaf diseases; no chemical 
reagent is used, therefore detection cost is reduced and no environment 
pollution is caused. The real-time diagnosis method and system can be well applied to 
disease monitoring.