Optimal Features Driven Attention Network With Medium-Scale Benchmark for Wheat Diseases Recognition

Wheat serves as a crucial agricultural commodity and a primary dietary staple for numerous global populations. However, it faces persistent threats from various diseases targeting wheat leaves, ultimately impacting its production. Accurate and prompt automated disease diagnosis through advanced comp...

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Main Authors: Muhammad Islam, Mohammed Aloraini, Shabana Habib, Meshari D. Alanazi, Ishrat Khan, Aqib Khan
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author Muhammad Islam
Mohammed Aloraini
Shabana Habib
Meshari D. Alanazi
Ishrat Khan
Aqib Khan
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Meshari D. Alanazi
Ishrat Khan
Aqib Khan
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description Wheat serves as a crucial agricultural commodity and a primary dietary staple for numerous global populations. However, it faces persistent threats from various diseases targeting wheat leaves, ultimately impacting its production. Accurate and prompt automated disease diagnosis through advanced computer vision is crucial for safeguarding wheat quality. However, the literature relied on inadequate feature selection acquired from computationally expensive backbones followed by shallow layered networks. It is resultantly limiting their capacity to recognize and prioritize diseased areas effectively. Therefore, this paper introduces an optimal features-assisted lightweight framework that integrates EfficientNet-B3 with a spatial attention (SA) mechanism to capture healthy and unhealthy patterns effectively. The proposed framework harnesses this capability to address the vital regions affected by wheat diseases via an optimized, lightweight, and attentive network. Subsequently, we thoroughly analyzed several backbone features to identify robust hyperparameters conducive to achieving our lightweight objective. Furthermore, we employed SA blocks to fortify the network, directing attention efficiently towards diseased regions. The efficacy of the proposed network is validated through comprehensive evaluations conducted on both our proposed and LWDCD2020 benchmarks. Comparative analyses with existing methods consistently showcase superiority, firmly establishing our proposed approach as a viable network for wheat disease recognition. additionally, we also collected our own dataset, namely the Wheat Disease Five Classes Classification Dataset (WD5CC), and included diverse images.
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spelling doaj-art-fb173f7995de4156832c751c8eaa212a2025-08-20T03:07:00ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362024-01-011215073915075310.1109/ACCESS.2024.343457510613379Optimal Features Driven Attention Network With Medium-Scale Benchmark for Wheat Diseases RecognitionMuhammad Islam0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2379-4451Mohammed Aloraini1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1655-8098Shabana Habib2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6543-2520Meshari D. Alanazi3Ishrat Khan4https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3036-991XAqib Khan5https://orcid.org/0009-0005-3171-9418Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Qassim University, Buraydah, Saudi ArabiaDepartment of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Qassim University, Buraydah, Saudi ArabiaDepartment of Information Technology, College of Computer, Qassim University, Buraydah, Saudi ArabiaDepartment of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Jouf University, Sakaka, Saudi ArabiaDepartment of Computer Science, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaDepartment of Botany, Islamia College University, Peshawar, PakistanWheat serves as a crucial agricultural commodity and a primary dietary staple for numerous global populations. However, it faces persistent threats from various diseases targeting wheat leaves, ultimately impacting its production. Accurate and prompt automated disease diagnosis through advanced computer vision is crucial for safeguarding wheat quality. However, the literature relied on inadequate feature selection acquired from computationally expensive backbones followed by shallow layered networks. It is resultantly limiting their capacity to recognize and prioritize diseased areas effectively. Therefore, this paper introduces an optimal features-assisted lightweight framework that integrates EfficientNet-B3 with a spatial attention (SA) mechanism to capture healthy and unhealthy patterns effectively. The proposed framework harnesses this capability to address the vital regions affected by wheat diseases via an optimized, lightweight, and attentive network. Subsequently, we thoroughly analyzed several backbone features to identify robust hyperparameters conducive to achieving our lightweight objective. Furthermore, we employed SA blocks to fortify the network, directing attention efficiently towards diseased regions. The efficacy of the proposed network is validated through comprehensive evaluations conducted on both our proposed and LWDCD2020 benchmarks. Comparative analyses with existing methods consistently showcase superiority, firmly establishing our proposed approach as a viable network for wheat disease recognition. additionally, we also collected our own dataset, namely the Wheat Disease Five Classes Classification Dataset (WD5CC), and included diverse images.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10613379/Image processingintelligent systemsmart agriculturelightweight networkInternet of Thingsdeep learning
spellingShingle Muhammad Islam
Mohammed Aloraini
Shabana Habib
Meshari D. Alanazi
Ishrat Khan
Aqib Khan
Optimal Features Driven Attention Network With Medium-Scale Benchmark for Wheat Diseases Recognition
IEEE Access
Image processing
intelligent system
smart agriculture
lightweight network
Internet of Things
deep learning
title Optimal Features Driven Attention Network With Medium-Scale Benchmark for Wheat Diseases Recognition
title_full Optimal Features Driven Attention Network With Medium-Scale Benchmark for Wheat Diseases Recognition
title_fullStr Optimal Features Driven Attention Network With Medium-Scale Benchmark for Wheat Diseases Recognition
title_full_unstemmed Optimal Features Driven Attention Network With Medium-Scale Benchmark for Wheat Diseases Recognition
title_short Optimal Features Driven Attention Network With Medium-Scale Benchmark for Wheat Diseases Recognition
title_sort optimal features driven attention network with medium scale benchmark for wheat diseases recognition
topic Image processing
intelligent system
smart agriculture
lightweight network
Internet of Things
deep learning
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10613379/
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