With the development of smart agriculture,accurately identifying crop diseases through visual recognition techniques instead of by eye has been a significant challenge.This study focused on apple leaf disease,which is...With the development of smart agriculture,accurately identifying crop diseases through visual recognition techniques instead of by eye has been a significant challenge.This study focused on apple leaf disease,which is closely related to the final yield of apples.A multiscale fusion dense network combined with an efficient multiscale attention(EMA)mechanism called Incept_EMA_DenseNet was developed to better identify eight complex apple leaf disease images.Incept_EMA_DenseNet consists of three crucial parts:the inception module,which substituted the convolution layer with multiscale fusion methods in the shallow feature extraction layer;the EMA mechanism,which is used for obtaining appropriate weights of different dense blocks;and the improved DenseNet based on DenseNet_121.Specifically,to find appropriate multiscale fusion methods,the residual module and inception module were compared to determine the performance of each technique,and Incept_EMA_DenseNet achieved an accuracy of 95.38%.Second,this work used three attention mechanisms,and the efficient multiscale attention mechanism obtained the best performance.Third,the convolution layers and bottlenecks were modified without performance degradation,reducing half of the computational load compared with the original models.Incept_EMA_DenseNet,as proposed in this paper,has an accuracy of 96.76%,being 2.93%,3.44%,and 4.16%better than Resnet50,DenseNet_121 and GoogLeNet,respectively,proved to be reliable and beneficial,and can effectively and conveniently assist apple growers with leaf disease identification in the field.展开更多
基金fully supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(52072412)。
文摘With the development of smart agriculture,accurately identifying crop diseases through visual recognition techniques instead of by eye has been a significant challenge.This study focused on apple leaf disease,which is closely related to the final yield of apples.A multiscale fusion dense network combined with an efficient multiscale attention(EMA)mechanism called Incept_EMA_DenseNet was developed to better identify eight complex apple leaf disease images.Incept_EMA_DenseNet consists of three crucial parts:the inception module,which substituted the convolution layer with multiscale fusion methods in the shallow feature extraction layer;the EMA mechanism,which is used for obtaining appropriate weights of different dense blocks;and the improved DenseNet based on DenseNet_121.Specifically,to find appropriate multiscale fusion methods,the residual module and inception module were compared to determine the performance of each technique,and Incept_EMA_DenseNet achieved an accuracy of 95.38%.Second,this work used three attention mechanisms,and the efficient multiscale attention mechanism obtained the best performance.Third,the convolution layers and bottlenecks were modified without performance degradation,reducing half of the computational load compared with the original models.Incept_EMA_DenseNet,as proposed in this paper,has an accuracy of 96.76%,being 2.93%,3.44%,and 4.16%better than Resnet50,DenseNet_121 and GoogLeNet,respectively,proved to be reliable and beneficial,and can effectively and conveniently assist apple growers with leaf disease identification in the field.
