Ultra-lightweight tomatoes disease recognition method based on efficient attention mechanism in complex environment

A variety of diseased leaves and background noise types are present in images of diseased tomatoes captured in real-world environments. However, existing tomato leaf disease recognition models are limited to recognizing only a single leaf, rendering them unsuitable for practical applications in real...

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Main Authors: Wenbin Sun, Zhilong Xu, Kang Xu, Lin Ru, Ranbing Yang, Rong Wang, Jiejie Xing
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Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2025-02-01
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2024.1491593/full
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Zhilong Xu
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Lin Ru
Ranbing Yang
Rong Wang
Jiejie Xing
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description A variety of diseased leaves and background noise types are present in images of diseased tomatoes captured in real-world environments. However, existing tomato leaf disease recognition models are limited to recognizing only a single leaf, rendering them unsuitable for practical applications in real-world scenarios. Additionally, these models consume significant hardware resources, making their implementation challenging for agricultural production and promotion. To address these issues, this study proposes a framework that integrates tomato leaf detection with leaf disease recognition. This framework includes a leaf detection model designed for diverse and complex environments, along with an ultra-lightweight model for recognizing tomato leaf diseases. To minimize hardware resource consumption, we developed five inverted residual modules coupled with an efficient attention mechanism, resulting in an ultra-lightweight recognition model that effectively balances model complexity and accuracy. The proposed network was trained on a dataset collected from real environments, and 14 contrasting experiments were conducted under varying noise conditions. The results indicate that the accuracy of the ultra-lightweight tomato disease recognition model, which utilizes the efficient attention mechanism, is 97.84%, with only 0.418 million parameters. Compared to traditional image recognition models, the model presented in this study not only achieves enhanced recognition accuracy across 14 noisy environments but also significantly reduces the number of required model parameters, thereby overcoming the limitation of existing models that can only recognize single disease images.
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spelling doaj-art-ee34e462eeb447a3a9e98e4780ab4eba2025-08-20T02:13:36ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Plant Science1664-462X2025-02-011510.3389/fpls.2024.14915931491593Ultra-lightweight tomatoes disease recognition method based on efficient attention mechanism in complex environmentWenbin Sun0Zhilong Xu1Kang Xu2Lin Ru3Ranbing Yang4Rong Wang5Jiejie Xing6College of Information and Communication Engineering, Hainan University, Haikou, ChinaCollege of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Hainan University, Haikou, ChinaCollege of Information and Communication Engineering, Hainan University, Haikou, ChinaCollege of Civil Engineering and Water Conservancy, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Daqing, ChinaCollege of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Hainan University, Haikou, ChinaInformation Technology Research Center, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, ChinaCollege of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Hainan University, Haikou, ChinaA variety of diseased leaves and background noise types are present in images of diseased tomatoes captured in real-world environments. However, existing tomato leaf disease recognition models are limited to recognizing only a single leaf, rendering them unsuitable for practical applications in real-world scenarios. Additionally, these models consume significant hardware resources, making their implementation challenging for agricultural production and promotion. To address these issues, this study proposes a framework that integrates tomato leaf detection with leaf disease recognition. This framework includes a leaf detection model designed for diverse and complex environments, along with an ultra-lightweight model for recognizing tomato leaf diseases. To minimize hardware resource consumption, we developed five inverted residual modules coupled with an efficient attention mechanism, resulting in an ultra-lightweight recognition model that effectively balances model complexity and accuracy. The proposed network was trained on a dataset collected from real environments, and 14 contrasting experiments were conducted under varying noise conditions. The results indicate that the accuracy of the ultra-lightweight tomato disease recognition model, which utilizes the efficient attention mechanism, is 97.84%, with only 0.418 million parameters. Compared to traditional image recognition models, the model presented in this study not only achieves enhanced recognition accuracy across 14 noisy environments but also significantly reduces the number of required model parameters, thereby overcoming the limitation of existing models that can only recognize single disease images.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2024.1491593/fullplant disease identificationimage classificationattention mechanismdeep separable convolutiondeep learning
spellingShingle Wenbin Sun
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Ranbing Yang
Rong Wang
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Ultra-lightweight tomatoes disease recognition method based on efficient attention mechanism in complex environment
Frontiers in Plant Science
plant disease identification
image classification
attention mechanism
deep separable convolution
deep learning
title Ultra-lightweight tomatoes disease recognition method based on efficient attention mechanism in complex environment
title_full Ultra-lightweight tomatoes disease recognition method based on efficient attention mechanism in complex environment
title_fullStr Ultra-lightweight tomatoes disease recognition method based on efficient attention mechanism in complex environment
title_full_unstemmed Ultra-lightweight tomatoes disease recognition method based on efficient attention mechanism in complex environment
title_short Ultra-lightweight tomatoes disease recognition method based on efficient attention mechanism in complex environment
title_sort ultra lightweight tomatoes disease recognition method based on efficient attention mechanism in complex environment
topic plant disease identification
image classification
attention mechanism
deep separable convolution
deep learning
url https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2024.1491593/full
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