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The proposed architecture is only four layers deep with a maximum width of 48 features. The utility of the proposed work is twofold: (1) it is helpful for the automatic detection of plant leaf diseases and (2) it can be used as a virtual assistant for a field pathologist to distinguish among classes with similar symptoms. Since dealing with classes with similar-looking symptoms is not well studied, there is no benchmark database for this purpose. We prepared a dataset of 11 similar-looking classes and 5, 108 images for experimentation and have also made it publicly available. 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