A Diffusion-Based Detection Model for Accurate Soybean Disease Identification in Smart Agricultural Environments

Accurate detection of soybean diseases is a critical component in achieving intelligent agricultural management. However, traditional methods often underperform in complex field scenarios. This paper proposes a diffusion-based object detection model that integrates the endogenous diffusion sub-netwo...

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Main Authors: Jiaxin Yin, Weixia Li, Junhong Shen, Chaoyu Zhou, Siqi Li, Jingchao Suo, Jujing Yang, Ruiqi Jia, Chunli Lv
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author Jiaxin Yin
Weixia Li
Junhong Shen
Chaoyu Zhou
Siqi Li
Jingchao Suo
Jujing Yang
Ruiqi Jia
Chunli Lv
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Weixia Li
Junhong Shen
Chaoyu Zhou
Siqi Li
Jingchao Suo
Jujing Yang
Ruiqi Jia
Chunli Lv
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description Accurate detection of soybean diseases is a critical component in achieving intelligent agricultural management. However, traditional methods often underperform in complex field scenarios. This paper proposes a diffusion-based object detection model that integrates the endogenous diffusion sub-network and the endogenous diffusion loss function to progressively optimize feature distributions, significantly enhancing detection performance for complex backgrounds and diverse disease regions. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms multiple baseline models, achieving a precision of 94%, recall of 90%, accuracy of 92%, and mAP@50 and mAP@75 of 92% and 91%, respectively, surpassing RetinaNet, DETR, YOLOv10, and DETR v2. In fine-grained disease detection, the model performs best on rust detection, with a precision of 96% and a recall of 93%. For more complex diseases such as bacterial blight and Fusarium head blight, precision and mAP exceed 90%. Compared to self-attention and CBAM, the proposed endogenous diffusion attention mechanism further improves feature extraction accuracy and robustness. This method demonstrates significant advantages in both theoretical innovation and practical application, providing critical technological support for intelligent soybean disease detection.
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spelling doaj-art-7ade05d8cf5f4b2fa0384ea83071aaa62025-08-20T02:52:48ZengMDPI AGPlants2223-77472025-02-0114567510.3390/plants14050675A Diffusion-Based Detection Model for Accurate Soybean Disease Identification in Smart Agricultural EnvironmentsJiaxin Yin0Weixia Li1Junhong Shen2Chaoyu Zhou3Siqi Li4Jingchao Suo5Jujing Yang6Ruiqi Jia7Chunli Lv8China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, ChinaChina Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, ChinaChina Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, ChinaChina Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, ChinaChina Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, ChinaChina Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, ChinaChina Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, ChinaChina Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, ChinaChina Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, ChinaAccurate detection of soybean diseases is a critical component in achieving intelligent agricultural management. However, traditional methods often underperform in complex field scenarios. This paper proposes a diffusion-based object detection model that integrates the endogenous diffusion sub-network and the endogenous diffusion loss function to progressively optimize feature distributions, significantly enhancing detection performance for complex backgrounds and diverse disease regions. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms multiple baseline models, achieving a precision of 94%, recall of 90%, accuracy of 92%, and mAP@50 and mAP@75 of 92% and 91%, respectively, surpassing RetinaNet, DETR, YOLOv10, and DETR v2. In fine-grained disease detection, the model performs best on rust detection, with a precision of 96% and a recall of 93%. For more complex diseases such as bacterial blight and Fusarium head blight, precision and mAP exceed 90%. Compared to self-attention and CBAM, the proposed endogenous diffusion attention mechanism further improves feature extraction accuracy and robustness. This method demonstrates significant advantages in both theoretical innovation and practical application, providing critical technological support for intelligent soybean disease detection.https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/14/5/675soybean disease detectionendogenous diffusion sub-networkmulti-task optimizationdeep learningprecision agriculture
spellingShingle Jiaxin Yin
Weixia Li
Junhong Shen
Chaoyu Zhou
Siqi Li
Jingchao Suo
Jujing Yang
Ruiqi Jia
Chunli Lv
A Diffusion-Based Detection Model for Accurate Soybean Disease Identification in Smart Agricultural Environments
Plants
soybean disease detection
endogenous diffusion sub-network
multi-task optimization
deep learning
precision agriculture
title A Diffusion-Based Detection Model for Accurate Soybean Disease Identification in Smart Agricultural Environments
title_full A Diffusion-Based Detection Model for Accurate Soybean Disease Identification in Smart Agricultural Environments
title_fullStr A Diffusion-Based Detection Model for Accurate Soybean Disease Identification in Smart Agricultural Environments
title_full_unstemmed A Diffusion-Based Detection Model for Accurate Soybean Disease Identification in Smart Agricultural Environments
title_short A Diffusion-Based Detection Model for Accurate Soybean Disease Identification in Smart Agricultural Environments
title_sort diffusion based detection model for accurate soybean disease identification in smart agricultural environments
topic soybean disease detection
endogenous diffusion sub-network
multi-task optimization
deep learning
precision agriculture
url https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/14/5/675
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