Rice is one of the most important staple crops globally.Rice plant diseases can severely reduce crop yields and,in extreme cases,lead to total production loss.Early diagnosis enables timely intervention,mitigates dise...Rice is one of the most important staple crops globally.Rice plant diseases can severely reduce crop yields and,in extreme cases,lead to total production loss.Early diagnosis enables timely intervention,mitigates disease severity,supports effective treatment strategies,and reduces reliance on excessive pesticide use.Traditional machine learning approaches have been applied for automated rice disease diagnosis;however,these methods depend heavily on manual image preprocessing and handcrafted feature extraction,which are labor-intensive and time-consuming and often require domain expertise.Recently,end-to-end deep learning(DL) models have been introduced for this task,but they often lack robustness and generalizability across diverse datasets.To address these limitations,we propose a novel end-toend training framework for convolutional neural network(CNN) and attention-based model ensembles(E2ETCA).This framework integrates features from two state-of-the-art(SOTA) CNN models,Inception V3 and DenseNet-201,and an attention-based vision transformer(ViT) model.The fused features are passed through an additional fully connected layer with softmax activation for final classification.The entire process is trained end-to-end,enhancing its suitability for realworld deployment.Furthermore,we extract and analyze the learned features using a support vector machine(SVM),a traditional machine learning classifier,to provide comparative insights.We evaluate the proposed E2ETCA framework on three publicly available datasets,the Mendeley Rice Leaf Disease Image Samples dataset,the Kaggle Rice Diseases Image dataset,the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute dataset,and a combined version of all three.Using standard evaluation metrics(accuracy,precision,recall,and F1-score),our framework demonstrates superior performance compared to existing SOTA methods in rice disease diagnosis,with potential applicability to other agricultural disease detection tasks.展开更多
病虫害的发生将会严重影响莲藕品质与产量,开展病害诊断与识别对藕田病虫害及时对症对病诊治、提升莲藕生产质量与经济效益具有重要意义。该研究以荷叶病虫害高效、准确识别为目标,提出了一种基于改进DenseNet和迁移学习的荷叶病虫害识...病虫害的发生将会严重影响莲藕品质与产量,开展病害诊断与识别对藕田病虫害及时对症对病诊治、提升莲藕生产质量与经济效益具有重要意义。该研究以荷叶病虫害高效、准确识别为目标,提出了一种基于改进DenseNet和迁移学习的荷叶病虫害识别模型。采用分支结构对模型的浅层特征提取模块进行改进,并在Dense Block与Transition Layer中引入Squeeze and Excitation注意力机制模块和锐化的余弦卷积,最后基于Plantvillage数据集进行迁移学习,实现了91.34%的识别准确率。该研究实现了对荷叶腐败病、病毒病、斜纹夜蛾、叶腐病、叶斑病的识别,并将改进后的模型推广应用于基于无人机图像的藕田病虫害检测,实现了病害分布可视化,可对莲藕病虫害的智能化防治提供有益指导。展开更多
基金the Begum Rokeya University,Rangpur,and the United Arab Emirates University,UAE for partially supporting this work。
文摘Rice is one of the most important staple crops globally.Rice plant diseases can severely reduce crop yields and,in extreme cases,lead to total production loss.Early diagnosis enables timely intervention,mitigates disease severity,supports effective treatment strategies,and reduces reliance on excessive pesticide use.Traditional machine learning approaches have been applied for automated rice disease diagnosis;however,these methods depend heavily on manual image preprocessing and handcrafted feature extraction,which are labor-intensive and time-consuming and often require domain expertise.Recently,end-to-end deep learning(DL) models have been introduced for this task,but they often lack robustness and generalizability across diverse datasets.To address these limitations,we propose a novel end-toend training framework for convolutional neural network(CNN) and attention-based model ensembles(E2ETCA).This framework integrates features from two state-of-the-art(SOTA) CNN models,Inception V3 and DenseNet-201,and an attention-based vision transformer(ViT) model.The fused features are passed through an additional fully connected layer with softmax activation for final classification.The entire process is trained end-to-end,enhancing its suitability for realworld deployment.Furthermore,we extract and analyze the learned features using a support vector machine(SVM),a traditional machine learning classifier,to provide comparative insights.We evaluate the proposed E2ETCA framework on three publicly available datasets,the Mendeley Rice Leaf Disease Image Samples dataset,the Kaggle Rice Diseases Image dataset,the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute dataset,and a combined version of all three.Using standard evaluation metrics(accuracy,precision,recall,and F1-score),our framework demonstrates superior performance compared to existing SOTA methods in rice disease diagnosis,with potential applicability to other agricultural disease detection tasks.
文摘病虫害的发生将会严重影响莲藕品质与产量,开展病害诊断与识别对藕田病虫害及时对症对病诊治、提升莲藕生产质量与经济效益具有重要意义。该研究以荷叶病虫害高效、准确识别为目标,提出了一种基于改进DenseNet和迁移学习的荷叶病虫害识别模型。采用分支结构对模型的浅层特征提取模块进行改进,并在Dense Block与Transition Layer中引入Squeeze and Excitation注意力机制模块和锐化的余弦卷积,最后基于Plantvillage数据集进行迁移学习,实现了91.34%的识别准确率。该研究实现了对荷叶腐败病、病毒病、斜纹夜蛾、叶腐病、叶斑病的识别,并将改进后的模型推广应用于基于无人机图像的藕田病虫害检测,实现了病害分布可视化,可对莲藕病虫害的智能化防治提供有益指导。
